Tom Stoppard Quotes

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Tom Stoppard

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SaidWriteYearsLikeAbsolutely

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

John Malkovich

FamilyRoyalRoyal FamilySaviour

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

YouMustFit

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

Stipe Miocic

FightingYouKnowFirstBillsPays

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

Michael Tilson Thomas

LifeMusicMy LifeImportantBecause

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.

Mira Nair

SeeingHatredRacialSuspicionKeep

I give assists; I create chances, because I can't forget my position. I play still on the wing, not No 9. I play for the team, and everyone can see that.

Mohamed Salah

TeamCreatePlayForgetSeeChances

I had some friends who were great skiers who I would hang out with, like Jonny Moseley, the Olympic moguls champion, who tried to date my sister once.

Dean Cain

GreatSisterChampionFriendsOut

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.

Chelsea Clinton

LifeMy LifePlannedExpectedPublic

My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.

Christopher Buckley

WinterHomeHistoryWifePeopleMe

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

Boris Johnson

OpportunityDinnerWorldRestThink

In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.

Arancha Gonzalez

RoseTen YearsBackFarmersHighUp

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Swami Sivananda

FightConquerYouUpMustTerrible

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