Tom Stoppard Quotes
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
Quotes to Explore
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I want to stress that rationality is not a property of the individual alone, although it is usually presented that way. Rather, it gathers not only its force but also its very meaning from the social context in which it is embedded.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
