Francis Bacon Quotes
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.
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It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
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What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
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When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
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Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.
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Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
