Francis Bacon Quotes
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.
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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
