Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.
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Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.
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Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
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All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.
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I'm just kind of in love with Kathy Bates. And Sarah Paulson.
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The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.
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I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.
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I actually don't DVR. I don't even know if I know how to use it!
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We are the adult power in the world. It is because of the United States, our action or inaction, that there will be a resolution here.
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This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it seems hopeless now, never give up. Offer a positive vision, with enthusiasm and joy, and an optimistic outlook.
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My dad, before he passed away, never understood what I did. What I say is that I'm responsible for translating the director's vision, hopefully turning an idea into something people can connect to and relate to.
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I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.
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Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.
