Tom Stoppard Quotes

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

Tom Stoppard

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EyePenHandYearsLineOut

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Jerry Lewis

LifeFriendshipLoyaltyCommitment

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

Jesse L. Martin

RespectPeopleMeRememberAttention

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

John Cusack

GoodTimeArtChallengeManYou

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Angelus Silesius

ArtFreeLostWillFoundBound

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

Roberto Cavalli

LifeBabyMy LifeAfraidBecause

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

Lucy Liu

SexyYouBackKindWayLittle

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

Chris Noth

WallsLawYearYouLeaveContract

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

Scott Howell

LookBadOldBad GuyGuyPolitician

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

Ridley Scott

WorldLovedYouCreatingSmell

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail and sometimes even when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive, enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

Martha Beck

EffortSucceedStartThinkPowerful

For the vast majority of mankind's history, economic activity consisted of finding energy and using energy.

Li Lu

HistoryEnergyFindingMankindVast

Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

Leonard Boswell

ConstitutionTurnHonoredSeptember

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