Stephen Sondheim Quotes

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

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• The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Society
  • Color
  • Daily

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Makeup
  • Saws

• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Role

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Failure
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• The FDA has formed a rapid response team.

  

  Andrew von Eschenbach
  • Team
  • Response
  • FDA

• I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Thankful
  • Admire
  • Religions

• Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Value
  • Scripture

• I'm not Tom Cruise. I don't have to look that good. I'm always going to have a problem because I'm thought of as someone edgy, but I'm not. I'm a cupcake.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Edgy

• My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

  

  Anne Baxter
  • Night
  • Red
  • Wedding

• You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Joy

• Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Knows
  • Life is

• You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
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