Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
He said it was wife’s idea to name their daughter after him but I didn’t believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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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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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I was a big fan of 'Star Trek.' But then again, you know, 'Star Trek', 'Star Wars', 'Doctor Who', I wasn't a big fan, but you know, when they ask you and they cast you and it drops in your lap, how can you say no to these franchises.
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We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.
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I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on TV. So I'm trying to use the gifts in a positive way. And I believe that's all directed. And that's why I'm here on the planet.
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He said it was wife’s idea to name their daughter after him but I didn’t believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella.
