Tom Stoppard Quotes
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm painfully middle class.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
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Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.
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What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.
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I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
