Francis Bacon Quotes
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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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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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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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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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
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Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.
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A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
