Jacob Bronowski Quotes
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.
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I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
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I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
