Jacob Bronowski Quotes
The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'
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You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.
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Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.
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Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.
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It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.
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The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...
