Francis Bacon Quotes
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.
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I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
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Putin is slouching…looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the classroom.
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What a horrible system we had. How blind we were.
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My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity-of the wonder of innumerable forms of life-has always thrilled me beyond anything else.
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I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.
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When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.
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We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
