Aristotle Quotes
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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Good material is good material.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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People are absolute garbage.
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No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
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When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.
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I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.
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I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.
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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.
