Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
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It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
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I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and I totally destroy it and write all my stuff over it.
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Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically, we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social, whether it's on the web or mobile or other devices. So inherently, our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one.
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I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.
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You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.
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People think I'm consuming all the time, based on my Instagram feed, but I know how to eat and how to pair. I might post the heaviest osso bucco of all time, but I'm not showing the carrots I'm having on the side rather than having a whole other big dish of something.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.
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In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.
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Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
