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

• Desire
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• Principle
• Appetite
• Element

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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.

  

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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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• 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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• Those who desire to be men in truth, and not brutes, having only the appearance and shape of men, must constantly endeavor to reduce the wants of the body, such as eating, love, drinking, anger, and all manners originating in lust and passion; they must feel ashamed of them and set limits to them for themselves.

  

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• Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have a good time, what they prefer. I associate this with young people. But many times I think this infantile quality is much better than the false, incomplete concept of adulthood.

  

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• According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

  

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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