Stephen Sondheim Quotes

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

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• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

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• I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

  

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• Politics is a good thing!

  

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• I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.

  

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• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
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• To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

  

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• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

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• It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.

  

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• Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  

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• We should be firing bad teachers.

  

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• I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

  

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• You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.

  

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• I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

  

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• I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Kind
  • Mystery
  • Murder