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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Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are elsewhere, but they feel German. They draw on two cultures, and I believe that's been a real and visible factor in the football we've been playing. One of the best and abiding images was Cacau, a Christian with Brazilian roots, celebrating a goal with Mesut Ozil, a Muslim from a Turkish background. Ozil jumped on to Cacau's shoulders, and they gazed up into the stands, both wearing Germany shirts. It was wonderfully symbolic.
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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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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
