Bronislaw Quotes

#1. I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

Reed Hastings

#2. One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.

Bronislaw Huberman

#3. Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#4. The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view,
his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#5. Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man resorts to magic only where chance and circumstances are not fully controlled by knowledge.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#6. I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.

Don Baylor

#7. I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

Toni Braxton

#8. [W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#9. I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#10. An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act ... You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#11. The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

Bronislaw Huberman

#12. My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

Columba Bush

#13. There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#14. The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

Andre Gide

#15. I believe in a new beginning. And so do many others out there - those writing on scraps to hang in the Gallery, those who continue to work hard to take care of the sick, those who dare to believe that we can all be the pilots of something new and better.

Ally Condie

#16. When everything is going wrong, it seems like nothing goes right

Gary Speed

#17. Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people
a destruction which shames the whole white race ...

Bronislaw Huberman

#18. Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, Hey, is there room in your head for one more?

Despair Inc.

#19. The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#20. ...yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#21. There was a spark between us that I'd never felt with any of the other (four) guys that I'd kissed. When we were making out, it was almost impossible for me to keep my hands off of him, and kissing him made my stomach flip over.

Morgan Matson

#22. I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

Oriana Fallaci