Aristippus Quotes
The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.
Aristippus
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
Aaron Sorkin
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
Alan Cumming
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The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human
being from having one.
Irwin Edman
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My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
Ma Jaya
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Lucille Clifton
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Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
Joanne Rowling
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The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
Edward T. Hall
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The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
Vita Sackville-West
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
Warren Farrell
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The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward
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The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.
Aristippus
