Tom Stoppard Quotes
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I can't separate the fight with terrorism and the fight against global warming. These are two big global challenges we have to face up to because we have to leave our children more than a world free of terror; we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes.
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We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
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Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.
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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.
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Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.