Aristotle Quotes
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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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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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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I can't just watch a horror movie and leave it at that. The scary parts just stick with me. It kind of infiltrates my brain and sometimes I can't sleep at night, so usually I don't go and voluntarily watch one.
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Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
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Nobody wants to be losing, especially in New York. It's extremely tough. That's how it is.
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My first job out of college was with HBO. I worked in a small sales office in Chicago. So, I can say that even when I was just a little, low-on-the-totem-pole assistant for HBO, they were always amazing.
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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
