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Tom Stoppard Quotes

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Human Being Human Rights Being

To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.

Love Looking Forward Gold Win Doing

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

John Lanchester

Business Risks People Restaurant

As efficiently as our phones connect us to one another, and as much as we take advantage of that, we must remember that they have the power to alienate us, too.

Power Remember Take Advantage Phones

When traveling, we continually are 'discovering' what our day will be. We are in a new environment, perhaps a different culture, interacting with strangers who might have different priorities than we ourselves have.

Culture Day Priorities Strangers New

Buying an apartment in New York was beyond my wildest dreams. I had to scrape together every cent to buy it. And I'm so happy I did.

Dreams Together New York Happy New

I look to James Franco with complete admiration. He makes interesting choices. Whether right or wrong, that is up to someone else to decide, but I think what he does is brilliant.

Choices Think Interesting Someone Up

It's a holistic process for me during a show. I'm always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to make my voice do what I want. One big thing I do to improve on each show is to listen back to performances on CD while on tour.

Me Voice Process Back Want Try

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

World Better You Place Always Years

Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.

Down Courtroom Just Like Taken Norm

What people have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're like elected officials - they work for us.

Work People Understand Us Like

My thing with failure, just forget about it and get up and do it again.

Failure Forget Up Get Just Again

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

Douglas Kennedy

Work New York Find I Can New Three

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