Francis Bacon Quotes
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.Francis Bacon
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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.
Kate Bernheimer -
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.
Malcolm Turnbull -
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril -
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
Maajid Nawaz -
I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
Abby Wambach -
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.
Ted Rall
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow -
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
Damon Galgut -
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.
Zoe Saldana -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
Kajol -
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.
J. B. Pritzker
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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.
Ian Lustick -
I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
Jackie Chan -
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.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
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.
Maggie Q -
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi -
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
Zane Grey
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I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
Candace Kita -
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor -
I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.
Edward Whitacre, Jr. -
Airbnb is a company with values around hospitality.
Brad Stone -
I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
Cameron Crowe -
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon