Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

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• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Facts

• I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Getting
  • Hospital
  • Parking

• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Appreciate
  • Possible
  • Fast

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Lost
  • Moving
  • Dog

• Living in L.A. keeps me in my car a lot, and I'm constantly flipping back and forth between the following Sirius/XM Radio stations: NFL Radio, MLB Radio, POTUS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Me
  • Car
  • News

• Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • World
  • Single

• And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• This first stage of the life of the whole race is savagery, raw nature:… a condition in which man enjoys the most exquisite goods, equality and freedom, in full abundance, and would also enjoy them forever, if he would follow the hint of nature and understand the art of not abusing his powers and preventing the outbreak of his excessive passions.

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • America
  • Energy
  • Hate

• It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Husband

• I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Real
  • Guilty

• You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Think
  • Me
  • Journalism

• Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.

  

  Emmanuel Macron

• Looking back, as far as looking when I was a kid and what I dreamed about doing as far as playing on the PGA Tour and winning on tour, I've got those taken care of.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • Winning
  • Looking
  • Dreamed

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Work
  • Art