Francis Bacon Quotes

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • House
  • Man

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Women
  • Free
  • Amazing

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Strong
  • Afraid
  • Pressure

• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
  • Worlds
  • Untrue

• I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Live
  • Home

• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fame
  • Prison
  • Tongue

• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Voice
  • Accept

• Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Think
  • Wish

• When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • May
  • Soul

• I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Money
  • Interested
  • To Be

• I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

  

  John Schneider
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

  

  John le Carre
  • American
  • Opinion
  • Wonder

• Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opinion
  • Lies