Francis Bacon Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
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I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.
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I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.
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Our father always said, 'She'll come back to us.
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
