Tom Stoppard Quotes
It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
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I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
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you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?
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The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.
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The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.
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It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
