Aristotle Quotes
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
Quotes to Explore
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.
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I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.
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She Clinton has a terrible record as secretary of state. I mean, she's literally created ISIS. If you look at her, between her and Obama, they're the ones - we have this big ISIS problem they created with their bad policies and their bad thinking.
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My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!
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I would rather stop making movies too soon than too late.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
