Francis Bacon Quotes
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
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Però ne la giustizia sempiternala vista che riceve il vostro mondo,com' occhio per lo mare, entro s'interna;che, ben che da la proda veggia il fondo,in pelago nol vede; e nondimenoèli, ma cela lui l'esser profondo.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
