Francis Bacon Quotes
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
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As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
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I have heard it asserted that the inadequate sanctions already applied have not achieved their object. At no time, and under no circumstances could sanctions that were intentionally inadequate, intentionally badly applied, stop an aggressor. This is not a case of the impossibility of stopping an aggressor but of the refusal to stop an aggressor.
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I'm as much of a homophobe as Jesus was. The people who are participating in homosexual behavior, they need to know that I love them.
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I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.
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I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!
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My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.
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We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.
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I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you're performing, you tend to pull punches because you don't want to hurt anyone.
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I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.
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The situation in Iraq was dire at the end of 2006, when President George W. Bush decided to implement the surge and selected me to command it. Indeed, when I returned to Baghdad in early February 2007, I found the conditions there to be even worse than I had expected.
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Each person can make their difference.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
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I snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
