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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I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young!
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When I'm going to work, I often stop and wonder how I've got here. I don't mean literally, but just thinking back to when I first had the idea of being an actress, it seemed so unreal, so unlikely. People like me just didn't become actresses. Every new job I get comes as shock. It's almost as if I'm waiting to be found out.
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Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
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I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
