Francis Bacon Quotes
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
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美国垄断资本集团如果坚持推行它的侵略政策和战争政策，势必有一天要被全世界人民处以刑。其他美国帮凶也将是这样。
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
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Keep it real by being straight forward. Don't pull no punches on people. It's better to tell somebody than just lollygag around, letting them think they're living their life the right way. Because some people don't know what the hell they're doing, they don't know if they're living the right way or making the right decisions. Some people don't know that.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
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It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
