Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I’d lost interest, and that’s why they always packed me in first. That’s not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed a calendar based on my love life. A cyclical one, she said, like the Maya – counting down to disaster. Lesley could be surprisingly erudite sometimes.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.
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I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
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Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
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You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I’d lost interest, and that’s why they always packed me in first. That’s not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed a calendar based on my love life. A cyclical one, she said, like the Maya – counting down to disaster. Lesley could be surprisingly erudite sometimes.
