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Thomas Browne Quotes

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: October 19, 1605 - October 19, 1682

Topics

Without Within Carry Seek Us

I like 'The Voice.'

The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Exercise Play Personal First Been

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

Water Government Drive Generation

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

Support Child Friends Only Child

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Man Shadows Substance Clad

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.

Child Book Reading Know Lazy Want

I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.

Think Trouble Important Street Out

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Work Success Dreams Great Career

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Trust World Lost Economy Divided

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

Chill Us Artists Rappers None Dudes

I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

Goals School New York Happy Goal

Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.

People Building You Look Liberty

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