Francis Bacon Quotes
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I secretly want to be a rapper!
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisin' - hoping that I didn't make somebody feel bad for not having as much as we're fortunate to have.
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Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.
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Mrs Hickmann was inclined to forgive Patrick the apparent purposelessness of his life and the sinister pallor of his complexion, when she considered that he has an income of one hundred thousand pounds a year, and came from a family which, although it had done nothing since, had seen the Norman invasion from the winning side.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
