Tom Stoppard Quotes
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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When we're on the street and someone drops something, I pick it up.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Hero Ride gives everyone the opportunity to get involved with an incredible charity, and the beauty of this challenge is that you can set the boundaries: whether you can manage 10 miles or 100 miles on the ride to Blackheath, Hero Ride is for everyone.
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The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
