Stephen Sondheim Quotes
There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
Quotes to Explore
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I've never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I've been holding onto for years.
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Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.
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The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
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The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
