Aristotle Quotes

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

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• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

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• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
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• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

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• My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

  

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• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

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• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  

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• If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

  

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• One shouldn't know the future.

  

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• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

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• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

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• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Up
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• I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

  

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• I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

  

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• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

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• We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

  

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• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

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• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

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• Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.

  

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• [On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

  

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• We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Ask