Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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I've said before that when you win, people think it's so easy, but it's not so easy to handle it, and probably I expect myself to always play so good.
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Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.
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Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
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Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
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I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
