Francis Bacon Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
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I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.
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Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It's rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it's not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.
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It seems like not a lot of the world's issues can be solved by big government. But they can be solved by brands, and brands putting their best foot forward need advertising.
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And the family who had refused to acknowledge the woman's illness and who had all immunized themselves from concern by conceiving their own problems, now performed their duties.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
