Tom Stoppard Quotes
I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.
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Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.
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I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
