Francis Bacon Quotes
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Quotes to Explore
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
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I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.
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I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.
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Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
