Francis Bacon Quotes
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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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.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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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.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen.
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I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.
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If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
