Francis Bacon Quotes
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Francis Bacon
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
J. K. Simmons
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
Ram Charan
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
Pat Brown
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
Pat Summerall
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I am definitely a person of color.
Vin Diesel
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
Hanoi Hannah
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I had a lot of fun playing a naagin. It is all fantasy, so it was great.
Karishma Tanna
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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Ban Ki-moon
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
A. J. P. Taylor
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To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.
Barbara Smoker
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Francis Bacon
