I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.
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JACKSON POLLOCK Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... LYNN JOHNSTON I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I w... OWAIN YEOMAN My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't hav... AL FRANKEN I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. GLORIA SWANSON If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some ma... AARON D. O'CONNELL Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little... MUDDY WATERS I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and do... RICK MORANIS I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from po... 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MIKE VOGEL I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own lif... ZHANG ZIYI I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the ... SAM ROCKWELL I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to... IO TILLETT WRIGHT Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. ELVIS PRESLEY I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I kne... PAUL THEROUX My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't... LZ GRANDERSON A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th... JHUMPA LAHIRI I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with m... DUNCAN JONES It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Pro... KERI HILSON I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... LEA MICHELE In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an ab... JANET JACKSON I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the as... LAURA WASSER My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down tha... JOHN MORGRIDGE Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. Whe... ANUPAM KHER I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushi... SHAWN LEVY I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would t... BARRY JENKINS Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and... ADRIAN LYNE When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that... J. TILLMAN I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life grow... LEE DANIELS I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I do... MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLY In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a litt... TRENT REZNOR I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... BOBBY ORR So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of ... FAY WRAY When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life cris... FIONA MCINTOSH I always hated my mole growing up. 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DAVID SELBY I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature... BARBARA EHRENREICH Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn... BILL BURR I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn'... LUPE FIASCO My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... DONATELLA VERSACE My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum... MAMIE GUMMER I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It'... OLIVIA COLMAN As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interestin... ROBERT SHECKLEY When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I ... LANA DEL REY When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror,... CAMERON DIAZ From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrat... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it. NORMA MCCORVEY I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z... ROBIN WILLIAMS And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls... MALALA YOUSAFZAI I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style. 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mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit... FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions. FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot... FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co... FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ... FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
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To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
... FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far... FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
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execution than for counsel; and fitter for... FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de... FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving... FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage. FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy. POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.] FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up. FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect. FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
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FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend... FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,... FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from... FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ... FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy... FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f... FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil... FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent... FRANCIS BACON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. FRANCIS THOMPSON No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma... FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou... FRANCIS QUARLES Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. FRANCIS SCHAEFFER You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ... CLARENCE FRANCIS Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de... FRANCIS BACON Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv... FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. FRANCIS BACON The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor... BRENDAN FRANCIS The road to perseverance lies by doubt. FRANCIS QUARLES If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ... FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. FRANCIS BEAUMONT I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. FRANCIS BACON It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the... FRANCIS BACON Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. FRANCIS QUARLES The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. FRANCIS PICABIA To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. FRANCIS CRAWFORD Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven. FRANCIS THOMPSON Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. FRANCIS QUARLES