Francis Bacon Quotes

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
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I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
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I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.
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Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination.
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The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.