Francis Bacon Quotes
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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Pity they didn’t devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
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Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
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Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.
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When I went into a start-up in tech, I knew I could always go back to a law firm.
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A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
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There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.
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I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
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My father never raised his voice or his hand on me when I was a kid.
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
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Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.
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If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.
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When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.
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Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.
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The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
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I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.
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Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
