Tom Stoppard Quotes
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Quotes to Explore
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? Why don't you have any fun?' My fun is Sundays. Anybody can go to the club. You don't have to be good at going to the club to go to the club. You have to be good to be playing on Sundays, and to me, that's what's cool.
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.
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Practical life is not necessarily directed toward other people, as some think; and it is not the case that practical thoughts are only those which result from action for the sake of what ensues. On the contrary, much more practical are those mental activities and reflections which have their goal in themselves and take place for their own sake.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
