Tom Stoppard Quotes
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
Tom Stoppard
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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
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams
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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
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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
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
Verne Troyer
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I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.
Carine Roitfeld
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No soldier outlives a thousand chances.
Erich Maria Remarque
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
W. Bruce Cameron
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The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
Jock Sturges
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Sept. 6th, 1822, looking S.E. – 12 to 1 o'clock, fresh and bright, between showers – much the look of rain all the morning, but very fine and grand all the afternoon and evening.
John Constable
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Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
Tom Stoppard
