Francis Bacon Quotes
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.
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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
