Francis Bacon Quotes
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.
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Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.
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I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.
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We're going to continue to focus on family comedies because that is something that our audience really comes to ABC for. But at the same time, we're going to push the boundaries of what a family comedy actually means.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
