Francis Bacon Quotes
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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Be happy in your own skin.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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Think of it as evolution in action.
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So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
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I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.
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Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
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I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's scary. It is what it is, man, I don't be trippin'. I couldn't tell God when I wanted to be born.
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It's so hard to make noise coming from a small town that by the time you start branding yourself, you've grown in a certain way.
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
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I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
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Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how the company can invest to prevent further escalation in societal health care costs.
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I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.
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In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.
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I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.
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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.
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There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.
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I am confident that there are hedge funds, banks or investment companies that could allocate five percent of their portfolios for risky investments. In any event, for countries like Afghanistan the formation of an entrepreneurial class is of vital importance.
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Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
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Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.
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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
