Francis Bacon Quotes
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum -
I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
Frances McDormand -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
Mads Mikkelsen -
In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn -
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
Jackie Robinson -
I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
Rachel Platten -
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
Facundo Pieres -
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
Kate Mulgrew
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
Edmund Hillary -
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson -
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Natasha Trethewey -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
Katha Pollitt -
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
Omari Hardwick -
I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.
Kali Uchis -
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
Jane Porter -
When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
Jill Lepore -
I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.
Jacques Pepin -
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Francis Bacon