Francis Bacon Quotes
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
