Francis Bacon Quotes
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
Eartha Kitt -
I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
Fat Joe -
I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens -
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara -
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
Gavin Newsom
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey -
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
Frances Beinecke -
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose -
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
Felix Dennis -
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal al-Sharif
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. Schumacher -
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
Felix Dennis -
As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
Dan Farmer -
I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
Xavier Dolan
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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
Frances Beinecke -
How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.
Katie Kitamura -
Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.
Eliphas Levi -
I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
Brancusi has had more influence on my work than most architects.
Frank Gehry -
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon