Aristotle Quotes
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I love action movies.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
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You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!
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It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.
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I love the satisfaction of living in a world on a Wednesday where a song didn't exist that you're going to create on a Thursday that's going to change somebody's life, possibly, you're creating that from nothing.
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Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
