Tom Stoppard Quotes
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.
Charles B. Rangel -
I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.
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It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
