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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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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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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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
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There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.
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A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.
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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.
