Aristippus Quotes
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
Quotes to Explore
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.
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I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
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If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
