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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What I love about piano and vocal is it's incredibly pure, and it gets down to the essence of the song because you're not distracted by an orchestra. When it's just a piano and a voice, it's about the purity of singing the song.
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Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
