Francis Bacon Quotes
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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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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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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I have a very clear conscience.
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Somehow it seems like it's you and me against the world.
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I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.
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Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
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[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
