Francis Bacon Quotes
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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They played Kobe tough and a little harder than the refs wanted to see.
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Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.
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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
