Aristotle Quotes
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.
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When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.
