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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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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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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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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It is a great honor for me to be compared to Henri Cartier-BressonBut I believe there is a very big difference in the way we put ourselves inside the stories we photograph. He always strove for the decisive moment as being the most important. I always work for a group of pictures, to tell a story. If you ask which picture in a story I like most, it is impossible for me to tell you this. I don't work for an individual picture. If I must select one individual picture for a client, it is very difficult for me.
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.
