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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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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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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
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You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.
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I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.
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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.
