Tom Stoppard Quotes

If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Work
  • Live
  • Dream

• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Want
  • Tyrants
  • Seldom

• I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Eyes
  • Presence
  • Venice

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Question
  • Wish
  • Tired

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Policy

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• I love researching, I love interviewing.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • I Love
  • Interviewing
  • Researching

• I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

  

  John Lescroart
  • Music
  • Country
  • Band

• Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Ignorance

• When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Music
  • Live
  • Heart

• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Power
  • Fighting
  • Plates