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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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
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I would like to get nominated for a Grammy, but I don't set out to do that anymore, though, 'cause I never felt like I got my just due in the business, period anyway.
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Kids don't play every second like it's their life. Those kinds of people are probably the ones who think that in the last seconds we're going to come back, or wait until we do this or do that, but they don't understand how quickly it escapes.
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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory
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The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.
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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.
