Francis Bacon Quotes
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
Camilla Lackberg -
Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
Dan Levitan -
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
W. P. Kinsella -
I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
Wallace Shawn -
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
Vanessa Kerry -
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S. Geneen
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
Tadao Ando -
When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
Lakshmi Mittal -
In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.
Xavier Niel -
I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
Jennifer Beals -
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
Douglas Coupland -
I feel like sarcasm is important in a relationship.
Matt Lanter
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In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.
Cynthia Ozick -
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
Bruce Rauner -
I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.
Lisa Lutz -
Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.
Piet Mondrian -
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.
Walker Evans -
The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.
Walter Wriston
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
Harrison Ford -
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa -
I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
Wale -
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
William Wilberforce -
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
Francis Bacon