Francis Bacon Quotes
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
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I love being around my mom and my dad.
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More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
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The only weights I lift are my dogs.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
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We were created to look at one another, weren't we.
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Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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I always kept myself fairly fit.
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Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
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Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
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To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous.
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It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
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You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.
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The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
