Tom Stoppard Quotes
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
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I'll keep growing as a player, keep working out, trying to become what I want to become.
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Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.
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I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.
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There is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
