Jacob Bronowski Quotes
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.Jacob Bronowski
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Tavis Smiley -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
R. L. Stine -
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece -
When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
Gary Dourdan -
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney -
How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
Parker Posey -
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
Ramez Naam -
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe -
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Walter Cronkite -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
Adam Mansbach -
I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
Flume
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Poetry is a form of necessary speech.
Edward Hirsch -
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?
Jan de Bont -
It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
Dalai Lama -
So many partings in the mind the heart Has not had the courage to follow through.
Brian Patten -
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
Jacob Bronowski