Francis Bacon Quotes

Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.

Francis Bacon

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• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Thought

• Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Little
  • Debate
  • Washington

• 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.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Small
  • Actor

• 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.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Player

• I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Child

• I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Career
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Women
  • Think
  • Same

• I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Small
  • Born
  • California

• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

  T-Pain
  • Religion
  • Person
  • Human

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Same

• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • May

• There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • People
  • Help
  • High

• Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Courage

• Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Childhood

• I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

  

  Debra Winger
  • World
  • Sleep

• Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.

  

  Francis Bacon