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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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.
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Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.
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There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
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I didn't even have to be a big fan of someone to enjoy hearing them speak. I remember when Nikki Giovanni came - I wasn't really familiar with her. But she said some things I'll never forget. Like, okay, for example, she was talking about the amount of beef that's in the world. There are so many McDonald's, Burger Kings, Wendy's.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
