Tom Stoppard Quotes

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

Tom Stoppard

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PowerBelieveYouBackRightEast

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

Joe Kaeser

GoodFutureTodayHistoryGreat

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

Maya Angelou

PeopleMeBlackYouI CanPerson

I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?

Tom Reiss

SaidMoreQuestionAbandonedSoon

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Mohsin Hamid

LoveCreativeWritingYearLong

I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.

Mohammed Morsi

PeopleTreatWillEveryoneServant

I desire to leave this world as I entered it - barefoot and broke.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

WorldDesireLeaveBarefootBroke

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

Bruce Hornsby

PlayLivingKidPianoGet

Everything else is irrelevant after the bliss of giving a perfect shot.

Prabhas

GivingPerfectEverythingBlissShot

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

Susan George

NatureProblemsYearBackWithout

Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.

Tzipi Livni

ResponsibilityYouKnowKnowingWho

Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I'm sitting around the pool not working.

Tim Matheson

WaitingBetterLosePoolEdgeRight

People used to trade their guitars to get new ones; I never traded anything.

Rick Nielsen

PeopleNewNeverAnythingTradeGet

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