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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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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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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I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
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How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.
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So we may look at this and say, ‘We are tampering with the earth.’ The earth is a twitchy system. It’s clear from the record that it does things that we don’t fully understand. And we’re not going to understand them in the time period we have to make these decisions. We just know they’re there. We may say, ‘We just don’t want to do this to ourselves.’ If it’s a problem like that, then asking whether it’s practical or not is really not going to help very much. Whether it’s practical depends on how much we give a damn.
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For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.
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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.
