Tom Stoppard Quotes
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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Johnson said that he could repeat a complete chapter of 'The Natural History of Iceland' from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.' 62 Chap. lxxii.
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Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.
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If you simply accept life as it is, you will be a lot more fulfilled and increasingly worry free.
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Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.
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Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.
