Francis Bacon Quotes
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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I won't join another band again.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
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Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
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There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.
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Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.
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Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.
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When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?
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You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
