Tom Stoppard Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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You don't want to vilify your ego.
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I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.
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If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.
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I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
