Francis Bacon Quotes

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Francis Bacon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

Topics

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I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.

Andrew O'Hagan

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I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.

Jeffrey Tambor

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Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

John Thune

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I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.

An Na

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I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.

Tracy Morgan

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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

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I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

Lucy Davis

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Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Deborah Sampson

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I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Claire Bloom

LifeEnjoyGoWantActress

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Brian Eno

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Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.

Alistair Horne

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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

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