Francis Bacon Quotes

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.
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One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do.
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In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.
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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.