Tom Stoppard Quotes
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they're like, 'Oh, he's eating up the part.' That's stupid.
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There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
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Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
