Francis Bacon Quotes
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
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People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
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I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
