Tom Stoppard Quotes
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?Tom Stoppard
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
Adam Garcia -
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
Ian Mckellen -
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman -
They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
Carl Hiaasen -
I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
Jacki Weaver -
I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
Gary Ross -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina -
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer -
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
Carl Honore -
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Jack Vance -
I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
Sam Worthington -
India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.
Clive Cussler -
I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.
James L. Buckley -
I am more concerned about a world led by people, who think like machines.
Haim Harari -
Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.
Dyan Cannon -
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
Tom Stoppard