Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
La'Porsha Renae -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
Ian McDiarmid -
My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
Dana Stabenow -
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain -
Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
Beanie Sigel -
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Lactantius -
Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
Octavio Paz -
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
Lennart Nilsson -
I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.
Coco Lee
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In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.
Albert Brooks -
The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
Maryam D'Abo -
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers -
I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
Jodie Foster -
You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down -
It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
Chiaki Kuriyama
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I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.
Kyrsten Sinema -
People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
Michael Birch -
After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
Claire McCaskill -
I hung around with Jason Robards, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton. I knew not to match them for drinks.
Martin Landau -
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
Yves Behar -
Nice is different than good.
Stephen Sondheim