Francis Bacon Quotes
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
Gavin Newsom
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
W. Richard Stevens
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali
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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.
Victoria Aveyard
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh
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When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
Hannibal Buress
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A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
Confucius
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It covetousness is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
Thomas Aquinas
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It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
Ethel Barrymore
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I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
Vin Diesel
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
