Aristotle Quotes

This element, the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.

Aristotle

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• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  

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• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

  

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• I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

  

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• You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

  

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• Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.

  

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• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

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• You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

  

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• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
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• Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

  

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• I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

  

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• There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

  

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• LeBron's one of the most freaky athletes of all time.

  

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• Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

  

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• Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

  

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• No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

  

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• My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.

  

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• Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

  

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• The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.

  

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• You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

  

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• quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)

  

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• It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

  

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• This element, the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Desire
  • Sense
  • Principle