Francis Bacon Quotes
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
Vijay Kumar -
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
Dakota Fanning -
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
Wale -
I am pretty self-indulgent.
Francesca Annis -
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
Natalie Gulbis -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard -
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
Ignatius of Antioch -
I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
Patricia McBride -
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Kate Christensen -
I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
Rachel Sklar -
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
Finn Wittrock -
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah
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I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
Clive James -
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
A. A. Milne -
I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
Action Bronson -
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus -
In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
Eartha Kitt -
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
Francis Bacon