Jacob Bronowski Quotes
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Quotes to Explore
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
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The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.
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I love dressing Nicole Kidman... And I like dressing regular people. You know why? They buy the clothes!
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We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
