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 found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

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• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  

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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've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

  

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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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• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

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• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

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• I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

  

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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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• Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

  

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• I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.

  

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• Do you know who I like? No, you don't. So I'm gonna tell you. Because if you all just did know who I like, then that would have been really weird, because it means you're in my head.

  

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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