Francis Bacon Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
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If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
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I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
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You read a lot of crap about photographic craftsmanship in those days, and technique; but you didnt hear shit about vision. I knew that I had an eye, a gift for seeing where the ripped edges of the world begin to peel away and something else shows through.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
