Aristotle Quotes

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Aristotle

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• Flatterers
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• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

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• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

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• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

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• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

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• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

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• By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

  

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• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

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• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

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• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

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• I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

  

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• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

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• Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.

  

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  • Time
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• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  

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• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

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• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

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• Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

  

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• If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

  

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• Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

  

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• After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.

  

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• Candidly, I've noticed that throughout my career, whether in offices that are majority male or majority female, the men are quick to advocate for themselves for a higher starting salary or more pay bumps over time.

  

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• My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

  

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  • Mother
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• All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Mercenary
  • Flatterers