Francis Bacon Quotes
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.
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It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
