Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski -
The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
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The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
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I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.
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We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.
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How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
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Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I’d found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.
