Jacob Bronowski Quotes
Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.
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When we were kids, I remember we'd use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would make us blond. Obviously, I have very dark hair and olive skin, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be blond, of course. It never worked.
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I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
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I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.
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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
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Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
