Francis Bacon Quotes
He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
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I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'
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Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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Money never sleeps.
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I love the weed, blow that odour
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.
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We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.
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The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
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By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.
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God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
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When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.
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Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
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He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.
