Tom Stoppard Quotes

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.

Tom Stoppard

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For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

ChildrenSmallCherishAirAnalysis

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

TruthSpeakGrowDareMoreLittle

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

Jason Bateman

PreciousStarFortunateFilmSure

You just have to keep at it and budget yourself; be prudent. It's art, so you really don't go into it to make a zillion dollars, but there's definitely bills to pay, and I want everyone in the band to have a salary and whatever they need.

Cindy Wilson

ArtYourselfBudgetYouGoWant

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons

RomanticBecomeRealistHimVenice

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

Philip Selway

GuitarYouWayWriteDrumAnything

I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded Man' was fear. 'Desert Spear' was exploration of the other. 'Daylight War' was relationships. Some of this is intentional, and some of it evolves naturally. The series as a whole is obviously something I have given a lot of thought to, but each book is its own animal as well.

Peter V. Brett

FearManWarAnimalBookDesert

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Paulina Porizkova

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I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.

Shaun Alexander

GameBackWallPlayAlwaysAgainst

We should be all be treated equally under the law. Why should members of Congress be in Obamacare and not the president?

Sean Duffy

LawCongressWhyPresidentObamacare

I played high school football at a hundred and eighty-five pounds and played big league baseball at a hundred and eighty-two. I'd get up to maybe 188 in the off-season because every summer I'd lose eight to ten pounds.

Ryne Sandberg

FootballSchoolBaseballHigh School

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.

Morris Gleitzman

PeopleProblemsYoungWriteCapable

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