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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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
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Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
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The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one tune a night. It depends on where we place it. A song like 'Beyond the Sea,' the fans love that. It's fresh.
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
