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.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Again

• 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.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Genius
  • Rich

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Men
  • Trying
  • She

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Goal
  • Enough
  • Popular

• 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.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • May
  • She
  • Society

• There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Should
  • Place
  • Policy

• 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.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • English
  • Thought

• Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Tiger
  • Maybe
  • Cap

• I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

  

  Ken Burns
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Devil
  • Stills
  • Wells

• Unfortunately, I think I drifted so much growing up that I don't have a strong sense of identity. I don't feel at home anywhere, and because of that, I think I'm more of a chameleon.

  

  Chloe Zhao
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• I don't really know how it feels for an American to go to Mexico, but if you come from Germany, Mexico is a really exotic place. It has this laid back vibe, at least in the countryside, and things don't seem to be as over-civilized as they are here in Europe.

  

  Sascha Ring
  • American

• When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

  

  Francis Bacon
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  • Friends