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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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 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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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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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.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
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Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
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Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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There are some people who make you feel less lonely.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
