Francis Bacon Quotes
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.Francis Bacon
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters -
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
Marat Safin -
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.
Gary Sinise -
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
Naomi Watts
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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.
Cara Castronuova -
I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
Rami Malek -
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.
Eddie Bracken -
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.
Mandy Moore -
Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
Adam Mansbach -
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
Yasmine Al Masri -
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.
Kapil Sibal -
I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
Yoko Ono -
I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
Caprice Bourret -
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman
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I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.
Andy Roddick -
I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.
Jennifer Lawrence -
Because financially capable consumers ultimately contribute to a stable economic and financial system as well as improve their own financial situations, it's clear that the Federal Reserve has a significant stake in financial education.
Ben Bernanke -
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato -
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.
Kadmi Cohen -
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon