Francis Bacon Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
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At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people I admired in Paris, for French Vogue. This is how I met Maria Schneider in June and which began our friendship.
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Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.
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This border crossing is a symbol of the dynamic development of Greek-Bulgarian relations and shows that we are prepared to go through mountains to tread the paths of friendship.
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And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
