Jacob Bronowski Quotes
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Quotes to Explore
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I would like to direct.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
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My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I like the look of a windmill.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
