Francis Bacon Quotes
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.
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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.
