Francis Bacon Quotes
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Francis Bacon
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
Taylour Paige
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Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.
Nancy Roman
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
Federico Fellini
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
Jacki Weaver
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
Daniel Dennett
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I'm not saying I came up with anything laughs. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, 'Look at all these gimmicks.' Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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For how long is it a duty to study the Law? To the day of death.
Maimonides
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I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.
Margrethe II of Denmark
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Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
Lloyd Bentsen
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
Sam Graves
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I'm also lumbered with the title of being a writer's writer, which is the worst possible reputation you can have, because, of course, other writers don't read other writers except to gain evidence against them. And it puts readers off.
John Banville
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Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
Ken Robinson
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Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Francis Bacon
