Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
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Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.
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Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine.
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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
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I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
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If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.
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If I read the right script, if that script needs $5 million, if that script needs $50 million, I don't care. If I read a project that's beautiful, that I really want to make, whatever it needs, it needs.
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I don't have that many family and friends.
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If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.
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I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
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I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.
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They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.
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Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.
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When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.
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Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.
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Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
