Francis Bacon Quotes
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon
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I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
Alice Waters
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I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
Jane Byrne
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The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when you think you can't possibly labour for another moment, and that, paradoxically, is when you have to push hardest.
Alexandra Fuller
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I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.
Adam Rippon
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It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.
Pierce Brosnan
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Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law... Just who do we think we are?
John Roberts
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
Rachel Cusk
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
Bill Mollison
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power
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I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
Patrick Ness
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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon