Francis Bacon Quotes
Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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The media is controlled.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.
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Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.
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Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
