Francis Bacon Quotes
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.
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Research can trap you into the past.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible?
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Here come the Democrats, again, you know, just weaker than Canadian hot sauce. You know? Offering a little reform. I saw one of the Senators, Democrats, saying, we're going to have a robust disclosure program. Oh, good. They're going to tell us they're stealing from us. But at least we're going to know.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
