Aristotle Quotes

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

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• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

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• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

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• Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

  

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• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

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• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

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• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

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• I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

  

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• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

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• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

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• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

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• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

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• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

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• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

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• I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

  

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• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

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• Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

  

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• I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.

  

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• Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

  

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• It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

  

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• For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Day