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Tom Stoppard Quotes

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Future Sacrifice Think Present Worth

My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.

Family Car Growing Up Long Growing

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.

War Battle Canada Outside Everything

I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.

Life Myself Year Know Nails Bus

I'm not really good with explaining myself verbally, but I do it through music and other outlets.

Good Music Myself Through Explaining

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

Time Chance Design Universe Enough

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

Identity Mind Entrepreneur Become

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Tradition Dead Come Soon Recognized

I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.

Phyllis Schlafly

Learning Great Experience Job Regret

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Politics War Will Accident Means

I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces.

Hope Generosity Green Planning Learn

The tide will at last change for us if those of us who can lead do so, and do so by not just talking but making things happen. And to to those who support us, we must call out for action, real tangible actions to help us turn this tide our way.

Change Support Action Help Tide Way

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

First Sinner Twenty Minutes Saved

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