Tom Stoppard Quotes
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
Venus Williams
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
Vince McMahon
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
Karen DeCrow
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
Cara Buono
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
Florentijn Hofman
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
Malin Akerman
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
Walt Mossberg
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
Dan Gilbert
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
Samora Machel
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My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
Jens Lekman
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Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
Carol Shields
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I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.
Oprah Winfrey
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Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.
Ian Mckellen
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
