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Being Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under…
- Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
- I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
- My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally,…
- The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
- As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas.…
- All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it…
- The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
- To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
- I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.
- The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong