Francis Bacon Quotes
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I don't even have my own computer.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
