Tom Stoppard Quotes

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Tom Stoppard

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• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Everything
  • Normal

• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Good
  • Very
  • Sciences

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • World
  • Eyes

• 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Like
  • Where
  • Got

• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Group

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Worry
  • Doing
  • Find

• Who buys French cars? Not me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
  • French
  • Buys

• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Facts

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence.

  

  John Rawls
  • Men
  • Justice

• The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Wish
  • Color
  • Wells

• 225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • War
  • Support
  • Struggle

• Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Power
  • Society
  • Should