Tom Stoppard Quotes
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Quotes to Explore
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.
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From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.
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As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.
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I'm kind of stupid.
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Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
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When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
