Stephen Sondheim Quotes
For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
Quotes to Explore
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
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My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.
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Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.
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When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.
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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.
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The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
