Aristotle Quotes
...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I've directed independent film.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I don't even know my own phone number.
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And if I was found to be good for two awards, it doesn't mean I should be given just one just to make the awards look more democratic.
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It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
