Tom Stoppard Quotes
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.Tom Stoppard
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
Karan Johar -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
Sam Shepard -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
Bartlett Sher -
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.
Vanna Bonta -
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
Larry Hogan -
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
H. L. Mencken -
If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
Fat Joe -
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes -
Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
Hanya Yanagihara -
For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
Zoe Sugg -
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
Patrick Kane -
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
Barry Eisler -
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
Lara Spencer
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Janis Joplin -
On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
Gary Johnson -
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
Tom Stoppard