Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.
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My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.
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You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
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The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.
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Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
