Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Richmond won on points, but only because one of them had a flask full of coffee.

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• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Up
  • Question
  • Wonder

• Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Control
  • My Life

• The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Regret

• I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Constitution

• What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Today
  • Want
  • Period

• Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Life
  • Love
  • Respect

• I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • She
  • High

• Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Loved

• Sports saved my life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Good

• The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Law
  • Exercise

• Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Comedy

• There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Famous

• We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Believe
  • Energy

• There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen, ... In the early years, it just took a long time for me to win a race. I got in somebody's oil one time and got in the wall, had a clutch go out once. . . so when I finally won one, it was a long time coming.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Wall

• New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Ideas
  • Audience
  • Flower

• The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Team
  • Leader
  • Weakness

• Richmond won on points, but only because one of them had a flask full of coffee.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Coffee
  • Won