Aristotle Quotes

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

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• I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.

  

  Taylor Dye
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• I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Parents
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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
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• A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

  

  Nancy Lublin
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• My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Home
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• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
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• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Progress

• I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Period

• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Remember
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• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Women

• You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Woman

• More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Lost

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
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• Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Good
  • Music
  • Morning

• There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Politics
  • Mad

• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Alone

• It's just really exciting to have the ball in my hands. Not just on defense but to make plays on special teams also.

  

  Erick Green
  • Special
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  • Defense

• If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Democracy
  • Economy
  • Rejection

• The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny