Francis Bacon Quotes
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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I like my world to be calm.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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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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It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
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If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
