Francis Bacon Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
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Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
