Francis Bacon Quotes

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know.

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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
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One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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The whole world is out of time!
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If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.
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One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
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I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.
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The I is the soul, which endures.
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How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.
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Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
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Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
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I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
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Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
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Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
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There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.
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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know.