Francis Bacon Quotes
Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
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I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?
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I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
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Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well.
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
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There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
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We were more fortunate than most, because Bernard Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.
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High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.
