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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• 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.

  

  Carlene Carter
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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.

  

  Garry Marshall
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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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• Life wasn't like that before, and I couldn't previously accept that things might not work out the way I wanted.

  

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• What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

  

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• Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

  

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• All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

  

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• I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

  

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• Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Envy
  • Joined
  • Comparing