Tom Stoppard Quotes
I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
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Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
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Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home.
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Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
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If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
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I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
