Francis Bacon Quotes
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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One lonely voice still shouting labour!
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Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
