#som

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ↗

— Xun Zi

#despise #determination #detestable #evil #good

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#allows #become #characters #delving #discover

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. ↗

— James Broughton

#create #desire #destroy #even #fearing

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ↗

— A. Whitney Brown

#actually #down #happened #only #past

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. ↗

— James Broughton

#hard #image #like #most #ought

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. ↗

— Alton Brown

#based #charcoal #come #culinary #fact

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon? ↗

— David R. Brower

#bed #decides #gets #guy #happens

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that. ↗

— Alton Brown

#am #any #anybody #ever #french

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile. ↗

— Alton Brown

#down #educational #entertaining #food #got

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#be happy #comfort #constantly #enthusiastic #fame