Francis Bacon Quotes
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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My hunger is always there.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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Leaders have to see past problems to solutions, and my mother excelled at just that.
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The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.
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Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
