Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Society
  • Make
  • Blush

• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Find
  • Get

• Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Way
  • Jesus

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Important
  • History
  • Proud

• I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Said
  • Counsel

• I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Same

• Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Compassion
  • Key
  • Islam

• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Human

• Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Way
  • Find
  • Lose

• If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Alien

• Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson

• She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Why
  • She
  • Perfect

• I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted a father, and because I've had this idea of what a father should be, it's exciting to finally have the opportunity to try and be that guy, to see if I can actually do it.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Up
  • Father
  • Guy

• When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Brain
  • Office

• One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber