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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
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Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
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Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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