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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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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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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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.
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If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
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I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
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That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.
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A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
