Tom Stoppard Quotes
Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.Tom Stoppard
Quotes to Explore
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney -
I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
Gabrielle Union -
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Patrick Swayze -
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Rachel Maddow -
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian Lewis -
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
Maajid Nawaz
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
Ice T -
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
Patrick Chan -
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Abel Korzeniowski -
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
Earl Wilson -
I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
Barbara Lynn -
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
Salman Rushdie
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
Tatiana Maslany -
In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
Patrick O'Brian -
I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
Kaskade -
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack Obama -
If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
Odette Annable -
The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
Barney Frank
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I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.
Daniel Inouye -
John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
Andre Previn -
The Yahoo story is still being written.
Jerry Yang -
Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
Barry Ritholtz -
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck -
Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
Tom Stoppard