Tom Stoppard Quotes
the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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Thea: Didja make your quota, Lois?Lois: Yup. Kissed a woman from every state in the union. Rhode Island was a drag queen, though. Do you think that counts?
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They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
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Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
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In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
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the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.
