Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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The Seventh Seal is one of the few films really close to my heart. Actually, I don't know why. It's certainly far from perfect. I had to contend with all sorts of madness, and one can detect here and there the speed with which it was made. But I find it even, strong, and vital.
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The aphorism 'as a man thinketh in his heart so is he' contains the secret of life.
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I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.
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Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
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When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.
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It's very important not just to think you need to eat and drink and sleep. You need to feed your heart and your mind and your soul as well.
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Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.
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Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
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Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.
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I want to be taken seriously as a musician.
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If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.
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People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
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Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.