Francis Bacon Quotes
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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During the Calciopoli scandal: 'A true gentleman never leaves his lady.'
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I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.
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There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.
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People, including business leaders, are willing to be open-minded about investment dollars when they know where they are going - and what purpose they are going to be dedicated - as opposed to just going into the black abyss of the general fund.
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The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
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I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.
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I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'
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The people we send to Washington have to roll up their sleeves, stop the fighting, and work together on issues that are not political, not partisan, but personal to families across our state and our nation.
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The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US.
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Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
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I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
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The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.
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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
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I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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Some bridges, once crossed, will change you forever.
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Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
