Tom Stoppard Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
Owen Arthur -
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin -
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I would like to direct.
Aaron Eckhart -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett -
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams -
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
Walter Gropius -
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
Cameron Mathison -
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson -
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
Dan Deacon -
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Valeria Golino -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Aberjhani
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I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.
Lily Cole -
I can't remember ever not singing.
Brian Stokes Mitchell -
What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.
Jeff Foxworthy -
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
Vera Wang -
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
Sally Ride -
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
Tom Stoppard