Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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Being part of the fashion world, I'm definitely not a fashion victim. If the style that's going on at that moment suits me, I might integrate it slightly into my look. I'm someone with my own unique style.
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The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.
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I feel fortunate to be part of the cooking community. We learn from each other.
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We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.
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I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive.
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We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.
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This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.
