Stephen Sondheim Quotes
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
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When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
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So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
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I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
