Francis Bacon Quotes

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Crazy
  • Execution

• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
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  • Kids
  • Imagination

• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
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  • Great
  • Kids

• In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
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  • Study
  • Progress

• I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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  • Home
  • Empathy

• I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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  • Mind
  • Remember

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
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  • Art
  • Movie

• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Bad
  • Guy

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Nature
  • Man

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Dad
  • Mom

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
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  • Work
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• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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  • Wife
  • Tradition

• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Together
  • Dad

• My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.

  

  Warwick Davis
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  • Small
  • Wife

• I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

  

  Imelda May
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  • Talk
  • Reveal

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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  • Father
  • Sad

• What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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  • Daily
  • Push

• A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.

  

  Billy Campbell
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  • Challenge
  • Flying

• I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is.

  

  Kevin Keegan
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  • Corners
  • Around The Corner

• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
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  • Life
  • Up

• I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
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  • Feminist

• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  

  Francis Bacon
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  • Children
  • Wife