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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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.'
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
