Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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Brazil is on my side.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It should not be discounted lightly.
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The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.
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It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
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I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'
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Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.
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I read to see myself in other people's lives.
