Aristotle Quotes
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
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I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.
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I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
