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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Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?
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The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
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Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
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I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
