Tom Stoppard Quotes
Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
Quotes to Explore
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.
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I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.
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There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."
