Francis Bacon Quotes
There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
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I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don't want my space to look like a showroom.
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Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.
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A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.
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Art should be born from the materials.
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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.
