Francis Bacon Quotes
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
Ma Jian
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
Gabriel Basso
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
Daniel Boulud
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I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
K. Flay
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
Abraham Verghese
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
Yandel
Wisin & Yandel
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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.
Plato
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
Socrates
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There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. I take it no less seriously than the band I was in for 15 years; it's just a new place that I'm in. I'm in the Gutter Twins right now and that's what I am. But if I'm a Twilight Singer next year, it will be with no less passion.
Greg Dulli
The Afghan Whigs
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
Francis Bacon