Francis Bacon Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
Ursula Andress
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
Ziggy Marley
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
Larry Wilcox
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
Carey Williams
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
Lady Gaga
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
Natalie Merchant
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
Valentina Zelyaeva
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
Ian Rankin
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
Natalie Dormer
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
Charles Bronson
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...You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up – a line which I often thought was a very plausible one – that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
Bertrand Russell
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If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
H. L. Mencken
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I had my foot in both worlds. I knew what I didn't want, and so I had to make a choice, just like N.W.A. made choices.
Corey Hawkins
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God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon
