Francis Bacon Quotes
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
