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'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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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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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.
