Francis Bacon Quotes
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Francis Bacon
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
Karen Armstrong
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
Imre Kertesz
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A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
Zach Galifianakis
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
Carlene Carter
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I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
Pat Summitt
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
R. Kelly
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She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter.
Anton Chekhov
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He drew for me on a piece of paper all of my scales. Every week it was something new. That was my first introduction to music theory.
Ben Jaffe
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Nancy Gibbs
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I think that if a player wants to be at the very top, he needs to win the Champions League and league titles. That's what makes the great players truly great.
Alexis Sanchez
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Francis Bacon