Stephen Sondheim Quotes

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

Stephen Sondheim

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Teach

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Years

• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Best

• AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

  

  Edmund White
  • Sympathy
  • Aids
  • General

• The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Family
  • Friends
  • True

• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Past
  • Change

• My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

  

  Yoweri Museveni

• Ist es denn wirklich so, dass wir jeden Dreck, der vom Westen kommt, nu kopieren müssen? Ich denke, Genossen, mit der Monotonie des Je-Je-Je, und wie das alles heißt, ja, sollte man doch Schluss machen.

  

  Walter Ulbricht

• Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Beautiful

• I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Start

• Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• A victim of God may,Through learning adaption,Become a partner of God,A victim of God may,Through forethought and planning,Become a shaper of God.Or a victim of God may,Through shortsightedness and fear,Remain God’s victim,God’s plaything,God’s prey.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • God
  • May
  • Fear

• It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Wanted

• You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • May
  • Want
  • Needs