Jacob Bronowski Quotes
The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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I am a Zionist.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
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Survival must come before civilization.
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We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.
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We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.
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If pains be to be taken to give him a manly air and assurance betimes, it is chiefly as a fence to his virtue when he goes into the world under his own conduct.
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
