Tom Stoppard Quotes
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson
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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
Gavin DeGraw
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
Malcolm Cowley
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I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
Katha Pollitt
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
Karl Lagerfeld
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
R. J. Cutler
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
Flavor Flav
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
R. Kelly
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
Tamsin Greig
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
Nanette Lepore
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
Irving Kirsch
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
Iqbal Quadir
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We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
Ted Deutch
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
Walter Kirn
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
Edie Campbell
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
Felicity Huffman
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
Barbara Hambly
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My band did the Teenage Fair battle of the bands - problem was we were 11 years old! They gave us a prize for youngest band ever.
Steve Lukather
Toto
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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
Sarah Dessen
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I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.
Donald Fagen
Steely Dan
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
Victor Mitchell
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
