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
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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.
Malcolm Turnbull
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
Victoria Abril
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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.
Maajid Nawaz
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
Abby Wambach
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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.
Ted Rall
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
Cameron Diaz
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
John D. Rockefeller
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Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.
James Nesbitt
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It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.
Sara Willis
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon
