Francis Bacon Quotes
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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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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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.
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If you really want to thrive, I would say you need a minimum of 12,000 steps a day.
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Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
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God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
