Tom Stoppard Quotes
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Quotes to Explore
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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 never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.
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I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There will be leaders that inspire young people. I don't think it means that it's over forever, but I'm getting pretty impatient. I'm hoping it comes soon, so that my young people can know that experience that we knew in the '60s, and that the World War II generation knew during the '40s.
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Girls in L.A. don't eat anything! I'll say, 'You look hungry. I'm not kissing you till you're full because I'm afraid you're going to bite my lip.'
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
