Francis Bacon Quotes
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
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Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion.
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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
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I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
