Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
Ted Yoho
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
Wassily Kandinsky
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
Garrison Keillor
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
E. O. Wilson
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
P. J. O'Rourke
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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
Bea Arthur
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«Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»
Mariano Rajoy
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A culture is made - or destroyed - by its articulate voices.
Ayn Rand
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When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.
Claire McCaskill
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If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
Jamie Dimon
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I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.
Carol Anshaw
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All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.
Bradley Walsh
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We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
Mark Rutte
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A busy schedule can be difficult, but I have the best husband on the planet. He supports my endeavors, and we work as a team.
Jane Leeves
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire
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When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.
Andrew Lincoln
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
Andrea Bocelli
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I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.
Morgan Freeman
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I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.
August Wilson
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
Lady Gregory
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I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.
James Turrell
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
Tom Stoppard
