Francis Bacon Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
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With 'Hannibal,' I just really want people to feel something.
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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
