Francis Bacon Quotes
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.
Gail Devers -
Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.
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Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.
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Not valuing wealth prevents theft.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
