Tom Stoppard Quotes
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Quotes to Explore
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
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The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.
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We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
