Aristotle Quotes
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.
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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
