Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.
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The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
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I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.
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An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
