Francis Bacon Quotes

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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  • Care

• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
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  • Movie
  • First

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
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  • Pain
  • Strength

• Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
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• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• I was a very, very good congressman.

  

  Dan Maffei
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• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
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• For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

  

  Adam Michnik
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  • Poland

• I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.

  

  Zoey Deutch
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• I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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  • Parents

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
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  • Happy
  • Band

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
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  • Children

• I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

  

  Upton Sinclair
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  • Perfect

• It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of 17, I happened upon a screening of Alain Resnais' 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' and it took my breath away.

  

  Arnon Goldfinger
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• You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

  

  Andre Rieu

• Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Children
  • Picture

• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  

  Francis Bacon
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