Jacob Bronowski Quotes
The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I don't like controversy.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.
