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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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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When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
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God pity the man or the nation wise in proverbs, I told myself, for there is much misery and much error gone into the collecting of such a store.
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I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
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I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.
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I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.
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I died last night. Seventy years too young.
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
