Francis Bacon Quotes
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.
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We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.
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When you see discrimination over and over and over and over again in your life, the more you're living it. I lived it for so long that it eventually breaks you down. I think that's where a lot of us are.
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Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.
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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
