Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
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• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
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• Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

  

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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

  

  H. C. Bailey
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• Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

  Gail Devers
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• In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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• Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

  

  Edna Ferber
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• They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

  

  Jack Kilby
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• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  

  Ted Nelson
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• I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

  

  Ted Olson
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• As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.

  

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• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

  

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• If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

  

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• There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

  

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• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
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• In the 1960s the planning department of the London County Council, whose unofficial motto was Finishing What the Luftwaffe Started, decided that what London really needed was a series of orbital motorways driven through its heart.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Heart
  • London
  • Council