Francis Bacon Quotes
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
Hansie Cronje -
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
Ziggy Marley -
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Major Taylor -
I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
Mahershala Ali -
I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
Talulah Riley -
Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
Kate Williams
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I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.
Rafael dos Anjos -
What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
Kate McKinnon -
Let's treat this country first and foremost.
Ted Yoho -
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Samuel Butler -
I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.
P. D. James -
Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
Arthur Wing Pinero -
If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.
Anita Sarkeesian -
I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.
Neil Diamond -
When they N'Sync and Aerosmith played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!
Lewis Black -
Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
Edwin Louis Cole -
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
Kehlani
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Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.
Ken Wallace -
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
Gabrielle Zevin -
When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
Hilary Mantel -
Advice? Look at your pay statements.
Oscar Isaac -
Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
Francis Bacon