Francis Bacon Quotes
The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
Quotes to Explore
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.
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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
