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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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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The moon is nothingBut a circumambulating aphrodisiacDivinely subsidized to provoke the worldInto a rising birth-rate.
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The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.
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Games have no other purpose than to please.
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
