Francis Bacon Quotes
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age two years and phase it in over 25 years; that means we'd raise it one month a year for 25 years when we're all living longer, and living better lives.
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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
