Francis Bacon Quotes
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
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I'm tired of answering questions about myself.
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The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way that Adam Smith suggested, which is that as long as you do everything in the interest of the investor, you're going to actually make the best decisions for all other stakeholders. I don't happen to agree with that.
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As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.
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The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.
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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
