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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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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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 take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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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 will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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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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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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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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All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
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We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it.
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You have the strength to push back against what others are making you think or do. You use that muscle of confidence. In the same way, joy is from the inside out, and not letting the things on the outside define you.
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Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.
