Francis Bacon Quotes
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.
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I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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My parents were hippies.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
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We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.
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Many people who experience illness imagine that everyone else is blissfully getting on with life in perfect health-and this illusion compounds their suffering.
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The revolutionaries say: 'The government organization is bad in this and that respect; it must be destroyed and replaced by this and that.' But a Christian says: 'I know nothing about the governmental organization, or in how far it is good or bad, and for the same reason I do not want to support it.'
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The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door.
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Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.
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I watch a lot DVDs. I don't leave my room too much.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
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He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.
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Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt
