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.

Stephen Sondheim

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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?

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Question
  • Moral

• America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Cold

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• 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.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Story

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Me
  • Court
  • Skeptics

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• We always trend set.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Trend

• 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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Way
  • Thoughts
  • Emotional

• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Audience
  • Said
  • Reach

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Work
  • Together
  • Best

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Leadership
  • More
  • Leaders

• The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard's complexion. It's a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Sleep
  • Drama
  • Ambition

• My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • City

• Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

  

  Charlotte Erickson
  • Writing
  • Make
  • Own

• I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.

  

  Kate Simon
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect
  • Taken

• The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Taken