Stephen Sondheim Quotes

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

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• The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Country
  • Now

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Country
  • School
  • Help

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • Country
  • Together

• We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • Confidence
  • Need

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Country
  • Love
  • Why

• I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • You
  • First

• It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• «To me, being president of the country is awesome.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Country
  • Awesome

• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.

  

  John Adams
  • Good
  • Country
  • Evil

• The 'patron saint' of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Country
  • American
  • Control

• I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why.

  

  Dylan Baker
  • Up
  • Country
  • Why

• I love India. I've always been drawn to it, and I hope that I get to visit the country soon.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Country
  • Hope

• Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Country
  • Real

• Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Done
  • Ambition

• I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

  

  Richard Price
  • Myself
  • Characters
  • Going

• Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

  

  Dominique de Villepin
  • Responsibility
  • Road

• The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Country
  • Shows
  • Used