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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If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
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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 would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.
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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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I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
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Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
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We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
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What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
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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.
