Francis Bacon Quotes
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, - mettle and bottom.
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Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
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Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
