Aristotle Quotes
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
