Aristotle Quotes
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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Man does not fear death, only the suffering.
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The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.
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The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
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There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
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I should therefore prefer to restrict my guidelines to the following:
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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.
