Francis Bacon Quotes
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
Dana Perino
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
Laura Innes
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
Barry Sternlicht
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
Barry Jenkins
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
Zac Posen
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
Tariq Ali
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
M.I.A.
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I've laid my friends bare.
Joanne Rowling
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
Kate Moss
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At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.
Chelsea Clinton
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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
Elia Kazan
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Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.
Socrates
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We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
Doug Aitken
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Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
Joseph Brodsky
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Francis Bacon
