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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

Quote by Randy Bachman about body, bad luck, bad, work, time, contentment

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Quote by Francis Bacon about merit, public, man

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Quote by Francis Bacon about god

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Quote by Francis Bacon about obstacles, wealth, wife, virtue, children

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.

Quote by Francis Bacon about time

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about actors, contentment

Ronald Reagan was an actor, and he was known as the great communicator. He communicated what he felt a lot of people wanted to hear.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about actors, people

Some people just emanate this great peace of security. It really permeates the whole set, and it's so rare to see that.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about security, peace, people

Tom Hulce and I have great respect for each other. But during the film, we were living a little bit like those two characters.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about film, respect

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about character, mind, being, things, man

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Quote by Francis Bacon about action, knowledge, end, life

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Quote by Francis Bacon about nature

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Quote by Francis Bacon about happiness, wisdom, man

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Quote by Victoria Abril about sun

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Quote by Francis Bacon about problems, man

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about impossible, actors, love

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Quote by Dean Acheson about attention, public, man

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

Quote by Dean Acheson about mistake, death

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Quote by Lord Acton about disaster, nothing

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Quote by Lord Acton about corruption, power, man, absolute, bad luck, bad