Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.
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I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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I've enjoyed my retirement.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
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It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
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I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
