Aristotle Quotes

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

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• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

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• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

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• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

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• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

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• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

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• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

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• I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.

  

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• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

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• The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

  

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• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  

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• Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

  

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• Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

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• I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.

  

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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

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• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

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• Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.

  

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• Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

  

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• Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means.

  

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• There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

  

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• Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.

  

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• Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Fortune