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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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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I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.
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Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
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The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.
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You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.
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Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
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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.
