Aristotle Quotes
Meanness is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.Aristotle
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
Ted Allen -
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
Bao Dai -
I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell -
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga -
We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
Carl Honore
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
Dan Jenkins -
I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
Radha Mitchell -
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ogden Nash -
I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
Federico Fellini -
Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
Takashi Murakami -
On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.
W. C. Fields
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
Oksana Baiul -
I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
Floyd Skloot -
I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
Dan Rather -
I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
Wendy E. Long -
It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
Kara Swisher -
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experience, because he himself re-creates them.
Jacob Bronowski -
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
Beryl Markham -
I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
Alastair Campbell -
There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.
Geoffrey Downes Asia -
Meanness is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
Aristotle