Tom Stoppard Quotes
The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
Quotes to Explore
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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No one knows what women want!
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.
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What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.
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As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.
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After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.
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You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.
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Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
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I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too.
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Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.
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Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
