Stephen Sondheim Quotes
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!
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Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform...
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Although we are all different, we all respond to each other's suggestions of perfection. And we enjoy the same response as the artist. It is the inner contemplation, the wanting to respond to life, that opens our eyes to what is already in the mind.
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I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
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My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'
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Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.
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Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
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I try to cheat up. If I'm going to have something that's 'off the plan,' then I want it to be the best piece of bread or the most amazing ice cream.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.
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When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
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Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.
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I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
