Jacob Bronowski Quotes
All great scientists have used their imaginations freely, and let it ride them to outrageous conclusions without crying 'Halt!'
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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No study is possible on the battlefield.
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A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
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I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.
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One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.
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All great scientists have used their imaginations freely, and let it ride them to outrageous conclusions without crying 'Halt!'
