Francis Bacon Quotes

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.
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I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.