Tom Stoppard Quotes
The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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This is how it's done. When people are sitting on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you justify taking it.
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I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.
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The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.
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The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
