#ere

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment

I grill, therefore I am. ↗

— Alton Brown

#grill #i #i am #therefore

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows. ↗

— Alton Brown

#cookbook #cooking #dark #day #eat

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#america #contribute #contributing #could #i

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. ↗

— Chester Brown

#how #i #i think #important #interest

They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer. ↗

— Chester Brown

#identifying #just #set #thought #wanted

With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech. ↗

— Chris Brown

#being #being there #bring #depend #everybody

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me. ↗

— Chris Brown

#because #crew #even #even worse #feel

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#big #big difference #coming #cried #cry

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large