Francis Bacon Quotes
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.
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Trump is the only hope to defeat the Kingmakers. Because everybody else will fall in line. The Kingmakers have so much money behind them.
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Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
