Aristotle Quotes
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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No one person is an island.
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It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.
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The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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In other words, science and religion occupied two separate spheres; in the pope’s view, Darwin might have explained where the human body came from, but that had nothing to do with the spiritual and divine aspects of human existence.
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All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat.
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
