Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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I can be glib and truthful all at once.
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
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People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet.
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There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.
