Francis Bacon Quotes
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.
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I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
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As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
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I urge the senior members of the political system to form as broad a government as possible that would unite the moderate forces from the Left and Right so that we will be able to bring about real change in the State of Israel.
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Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
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Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.
