Francis Bacon Quotes
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
Mackenzie Foy -
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Harold MacMillan -
This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
H. L. Hunt -
I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
Daniel Gilbert -
I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
Carly Fiorina -
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
Larry Brilliant
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
Fedor Emelianenko -
My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.
Cameron Russell -
I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
Cameron Diaz -
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
Yann Martel -
None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
Randeep Hooda -
I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
Sally Phillips
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I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'
Tamron Hall -
I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.
Larry Drake -
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler -
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
Garrett Hedlund -
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
M.I.A. -
All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
Nancy Kress
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Thomas Carlyle -
The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.
Denise Caruso -
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
Terence McKenna -
I'm not much of a jokester.
Adam Baldwin -
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
Naomi Watts -
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Francis Bacon