Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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I can never wink at the audience.
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If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
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What a monstrous thing that a University should teach journalism! I thought that was only done at Oxford. This respect for the filthy multitude is ruining civilisation.
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Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.
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Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.
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This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.
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Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
