Aristotle Quotes

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.