Tom Stoppard Quotes
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.
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Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."
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It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
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I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
