Aristotle Quotes
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.
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When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
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'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
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The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.
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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
