Francis Bacon Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else.
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Though the most be players, some must be spectators.
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Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.
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We still have a long way to go—or as I have written so many times, and said at the end of hundreds of speeches: We are just at the beginning. A glorious future!
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Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
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Just a good shot right on the right spot in the rib cage.
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Mondrian.. .The constructivists?.. .They had certainties. They wanted a stable basis to work on, but I’m afraid that that was enormous arrogance on their part. Nothing is stable and no certainties are possible.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
