Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

The Fire Brigade recognise only two kinds of people at a fire, victims and obstacles, and if you don’t want to be either it’s best to stay back.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

  

  Ice T
  • Kind
  • Hip Hop
  • DJ

• When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • You
  • Competition
  • Management

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Play
  • Serious
  • Drama

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Better
  • Sorry
  • Skin

• We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.

  

  Eknath Easwaran
  • Joy

• From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Work
  • Art
  • America

• I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

  

  Martha McSally
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

  

  David Autor
  • Job

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Money
  • Spiritual
  • Military

• If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

  

  James Victor Scott
  • Singing

• I want to do something that I'm proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Proud
  • Pride
  • Accomplishment

• I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

  

  Megan Fox

• In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.

  

  John Dobbin
  • Time
  • Question
  • Ignore

• Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things — like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day — that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Moments

• The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic groups they have their own racial elements distributed in their own proportions; like all or most ethnic groups they have their 'look,' a part of their cultural heritage that both preserves and expresses their cultural solidarity...they have developed a special racial sub-type and a special pattern of facial and bodily expression.

  

  Carleton S. Coon
  • Special
  • Expression
  • Elements

• I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Future
  • Communicate
  • Novels

• It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mistakes

• And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Government
  • Worked
  • Cube

• The Fire Brigade recognise only two kinds of people at a fire, victims and obstacles, and if you don’t want to be either it’s best to stay back.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Obstacles
  • Victims
  • Recognise