Francis Bacon Quotes
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
Bart Stupak
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
Harrison Ford
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
S. Robson Walton
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
Najib Razak
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
Fat Joe
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
U2
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
Vincent Cassel
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
Rafael Nadal
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
Pat Buchanan
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
Felicity Jones
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We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
Jane Siberry
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I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did.
Philip Green
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I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.
Ram Dass
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When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able to have a grown-up person's job with a real salary writing for a fairly sizable audience about stuff I cared about. When you're starting out, you try to get as much experience as you can so people will see your work, and maybe start giving you the assignments you want, and paying you (hopefully both). And if you're lucky you land someplace where you can stay for a while. But today that's a trickier trajectory to envision.
Anthony DeCurtis
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon
