Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.

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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Tired
  • Articles
  • Malicious

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Opinion
  • Alien

• YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • Free
  • Community

• I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Picture
  • Year

• My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Sister
  • Seriously

• A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • City
  • Morning

• They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Inspired

• The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Peace

• I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Kind
  • Day
  • Find

• Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Support
  • Name
  • Solar

• Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Stone
  • Murdered
  • Last Week

• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Country
  • Heart

• First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

  

  Dennis Kucinich

• Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Men
  • Women
  • Simple

• The rock n' roll lifestyle did have its perks, but it wasn't all limos and parties in the early days.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Rock

• Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Mistake