Francis Bacon Quotes
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
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I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.
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Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist.
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That song ["Money to Burn"] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I've seen the way a lot of people operate and I've seen that sort of thing go down. There's a lot of rich kids with a little bit of extra money.
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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
