Oscar Hammerstein II Quotes

I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • World
  • Done
  • History

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Change
  • Personality

• If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Come

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  

  Karl Rove
  • May
  • House
  • Decision

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Well
  • Ground
  • Feminism

• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Limits
  • Riches
  • Principal

• The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Best

• It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.

  

  Blake Edwards
  • Time
  • Experience

• In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Hand
  • Body
  • Weakness

• On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Understanding
  • Hands

• The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms of planetary development. I think this might be because nature corresponds to the unconscious and the artificial world of the city and human culture to the conscious mind.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I don't fight people for fun.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • People
  • Fun

• I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Hand
  • Lyric