Stephen Sondheim Quotes
They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.
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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
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Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?
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God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
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I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.
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The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this seat in the 9th District.
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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Don't mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you touch my kids one more time, then you'll be in danger too.
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You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.
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My personal life is also cinema.
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I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.
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They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.
