Francis Bacon Quotes
It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
Quotes to Explore
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I love owning my masters.
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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
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There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.
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When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.
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Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.
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The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.
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It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
