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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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.
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The end crowneth the work.
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I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.
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If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.
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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.
