Francis Bacon Quotes
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.
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The fact that there isn't a performance right for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.
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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
