Francis Bacon Quotes
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.
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It's frustrating to lose like that. The defense wasn't there at all tonight.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
