Aristotle Quotes
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the only one who's lost it. Maybe everybody else is living the now, thinking they're having it well. Anyhow, that motivated me to write the books.
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Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
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The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
