Aristotle Quotes
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.
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I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?
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When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.
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You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
