Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
But the first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.
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I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.
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A lot of sexual harassment stuff in the news, and I couldn't help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators, not all, but many of them are Jews
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I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.
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I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
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The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.
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The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone
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Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.
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But the first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated.
