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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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
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When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
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Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
