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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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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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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It's very important to feel good in my clothes. I like fashion that suits me. I don't take it too seriously.
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Themes recur again and again in my work.
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I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
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We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
