Francis Bacon Quotes
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
Quotes to Explore
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
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I want to get into voice-overs.
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I never thought I would model for more than a few years.
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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I prefer to create friction. Because if you're not pushing buttons, you're just making something pleasant; it's probably been done before, and it's not making anyone feel anything.
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Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
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I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.
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Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said ,if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke.It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.
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If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.
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I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.
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Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.
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Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.
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For me, my lack of patience in real life - I have always had very little patience. It's been very much my downfall in life. But having a child puts it in perspective. Very quickly you're like, "Oh, I need to learn what patience is."
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.
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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
