Francis Bacon Quotes
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
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I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.
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Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
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I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!
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I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
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The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
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In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.
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My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
