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Been Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
- I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about…
- The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout…
- I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the…
- I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable,…
- There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
- It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
- The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one…
- Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You…
- Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to…
- If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
- It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did…
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
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