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Tom Stoppard Quotes

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 3, 1937

Topics

Art Theatre Feel Assume Got Because

I'm always a competitor. I'm not there just to have a good time. I want to play well and perform well.

Good Time Play Want Always Well

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

Truth Politics Intelligence Criticism

I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.

I Am Eagle Loved Doing Silly Scout

I think it's much harder now with the Internet to hone anything. It's easy to share things: you do one track, and it goes on Hype Machine; people are being exposed a lot earlier.

People Think Internet Easy You Now

My policy has always been to say what I believe to be in the best interest of the American people and hope the voters agree, or at least will respect my honesty.

Honesty Hope Respect Best People

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

Me Team Direction Laugh Way Right

Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.

Freedom Free Political Robots Nation

I like to say it like it is.

It's always nice to be thought of.

Martina McBride

Thought Nice Always

There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

Smart I Am Enough Trouble Two

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

Douglas Brinkley

Safety Detroit Three Missed March

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

You Done Others Things Make Careful

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