Francis Bacon Quotes
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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I noticed in the front row a small, very pale, almost white man, old, tremendously alert, old in the only way I love old age, namely more alive for all the years, more attentive, more unrelenting, expectant and ready, as though he still had to make up his mind about most things and must not disregard anything.
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I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
