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.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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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.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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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.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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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.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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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?'
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.
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I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
