Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.
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I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.
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I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts.
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I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families - our ancestors - are our identities. Biology is destiny.
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I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
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So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.
