Stephen Sondheim Quotes
The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.Stephen Sondheim
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
Jack Germond -
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco -
I was born with an evil face.
Barry Sloane -
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama
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Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
Hannah Arendt -
My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
J. M. W. Turner -
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
Camille Paglia -
(That is it!)
Karl Marx -
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly -
Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?
Demi Lovato
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Arthur C. Clarke -
I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
Agatha Christie -
Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
Claude Bernard -
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
Lewis Mumford -
I grow old on my bitterness.
Anne Sexton -
And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.
Claudia Cardinale
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People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
Blanka Vlasic -
Time flies, and what is past is done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you cannot equate all Pashtuns with the Taliban.
Ahmed Rashid -
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
David Markson -
I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups-(a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
Stephen Sondheim