Francis Bacon Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris.
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The money might pay for food and shelter and clothes, but money cannot buy love, and that is what you gave, both of you; and it is for that that we now pay as well as we can.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
