Francis Bacon Quotes
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.
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I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.
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I think the stress of being No. 1 in the world is more of a motivating factor for me just because I don't want to lose it.
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I sang before I acted, but I always wanted to do them simultaneously.
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I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.
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Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
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To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
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Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.
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in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
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Look for and find the really good horses in your organization and run them hard. Push them and challenge them with greater levels of responsibility.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
