Aristotle Quotes

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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• It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Done
  • Political
  • Pleasure

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • Know
  • Changes

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fate
  • Decisions
  • Survive

• The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Growing
  • Problem
  • Process

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Like
  • Movement
  • Dirt

• I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Parents

• Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Home
  • House

• But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Pain
  • Loved

• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Living
  • Prison
  • Walls

• Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

  

  Wale
  • Man
  • Style
  • Confidence

• For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Just
  • Retirement

• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Place
  • Cruelty
  • Stands

• I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.

  

  Jennifer Aniston

• I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • God
  • Help
  • Wonder

• To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Mind
  • Accused
  • Dummy

• I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

  

  Aristotle
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Speech