Francis Bacon Quotes
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
Kate Winslet -
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
Naoto Kan -
Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
Edgar Ramirez -
'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
Gavin Hood -
The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
Zig Ziglar -
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
Rachel Sklar -
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore -
From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.
Irvin D. Yalom -
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken -
I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.
Feist
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
Aaron Sorkin -
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
Jackson Browne -
We can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
Barack Obama -
Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
Larry Wall -
The best way to enrich vocabulary is organically, by coming across words in their natural habitat, taking the time to learn about them, their histories, and making lifelong friends with them.
Anu Garg -
Self-indulgence takes many forms; and we should bear in mind that there may be a sullen sensuality as well as a gay one.
Arthur Helps
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Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
Steven Spielberg -
The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
John Selden -
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.
Molly Crabapple -
Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.
Melissa Auf der Maur -
Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
Francis Bacon