Francis Bacon Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller -
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal -
I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
FKA twigs -
The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
Patricia Riggen -
That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
J. C. Chandor
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
V. S. Naipaul -
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Bayard Rustin -
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
Lael Brainard -
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
Daniel Boulud -
Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
P. J. O'Rourke -
For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
Victor LaValle
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
Fernando Botero -
So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
J. J. Watt -
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
Wayne Huizenga -
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
S. Jay Olshansky -
No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond -
I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.
Wendy Wasserstein -
When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
Michael Caine -
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Francis Bacon