"When you're a boy your life can be……" — Ben Aaronovitch
"When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know."
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34 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch
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Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
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What do you think you're doing?
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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they…
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He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important…
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Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science…
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I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
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The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion…
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Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can…
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You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale.…
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...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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