Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
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Being fundamentally decent and honest and willing to put others before yourself - that's necessary for being an effective policymaker.
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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
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My driving force is spirituality.
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.
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i do not question your sincerity-if anything, i object to your questioning the sincerity of other religions.i am not questioning their sincerity. i am questioning their validity.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
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Art is craft, not inspiration.
