Francis Bacon Quotes
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.
Charles B. Rangel -
Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
