Francis Bacon Quotes
For a man to love again where he is loved, it is the charity of publicans contracted by mutual profit and good offices; but to love a man's enemies is one of the cunningest points of the law of Christ, and an imitation of the divine nature.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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If you look at Japanese drama, I think there is definitely a treasure trove of it, but I just don't think that people know about it. It's got to be pitched and presented better.
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Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
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I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.
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Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
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Worst of all was the blizzard. People from the east or west coasts of America may think they have seen a blizzard. Likely they have not. It is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the plains, and got its name on the plains. It entailed wind-driven snow so dense and temperatures so cold that anyone lost in them on the shelterless plains was as good as dead.
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For a man to love again where he is loved, it is the charity of publicans contracted by mutual profit and good offices; but to love a man's enemies is one of the cunningest points of the law of Christ, and an imitation of the divine nature.
