Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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I was bullied in high school. I would go through the hallways and be pointed at and laughed at because I was the new kid in a wheelchair.
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There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
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A decision was made to ensure that this substitute will not be teaching in any of our schools in Prince George's County.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.