Aristotle Quotes
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.
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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
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I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.
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The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it - and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
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Our ills are worse than at their easeThese blameless happy souls suspect,They only study the disease,Alas, who live not to detect.
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I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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I hate those vacuous musicals, the happy-happy, 'Let's have a good time' shows.
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Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.
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'Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.'
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
