Francis Bacon Quotes
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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I won't join another band again.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.
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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
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I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
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I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.
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Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.
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It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.
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I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.
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One must know to lose honorably.
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I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.
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I've always enjoyed disappearing into a crowd in New York. As an actor, I love to spy, and it's hard to be a good spy if everyone is looking at you. Also, I'm pretty shy. I don't really like a lot of attention.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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I started getting seriously into music when I was a kid. 1978 was my big year. It just hit home. That was before real metal. There was Black Sabbath and that kind of stuff, but the real underground, hard stuff wasn't even around yet. It was cool to watch that happen and latch onto the next edge of things every time that progression happened.
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Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
