Stephen Sondheim Quotes
The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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We always trend set.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.
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President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible sitution - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.a
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
