Francis Bacon Quotes
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
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When in 1969 I became publisher of the 'Washington Post' as well as president of the company, my plate was fuller than ever. I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did.
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No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully. (pp. 50-51)
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I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
