Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
Wang Jianlin -
When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
Nalini Nadkarni -
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver -
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
Madeline Zima -
When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
Mahesh Babu
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
Indira Gandhi -
Habits change into character.
Ovid -
I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush -
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman -
It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
Haley Joel Osment -
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
Dana Carvey -
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
Harriet Tubman -
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi -
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
Xavier Becerra
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With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.
Joe Sacco -
I am a black belt in martial arts. I like to drink scotch. I go skydiving. So I never really saw myself as a woman or a minority. I just went out there and did my thing, and it didn't even cross my mind.
Cheryl Yeoh -
Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
Kris Carr -
I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.
Ellie Goulding -
We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'
Marilyn Ferguson -
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Tom Stoppard