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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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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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.