Francis Bacon Quotes
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
Tadashi Yanai -
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey -
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
A. E. van Vogt -
I must never write when I do not want to write.
Langston Hughes -
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
Randeep Hooda -
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
Laraine Day -
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
Walter Dean Myers -
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
Patrick Geddes -
I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
Farnaz Fassihi -
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
Barry Sternlicht -
Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
Dan Jenkins -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith -
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
Adam Cohen -
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
Larry David -
My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
Naomie Harris -
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
Stanley Kubrick -
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
Tacitus -
They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
Sam Shepard -
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Francis Bacon