Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I'm not a negative person.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
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I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'
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Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
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Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.
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The SEALs rarely call the Taliban 'terrorists' because they respect them as worthy opponents.
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It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
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For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it-even of my own music-with the same nuances forever.
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Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.
