Stephen Sondheim Quotes
They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.
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Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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I'm waiting for the alarm clock to go off and I'm going to wake up, ... I can't believe how well things are going. This is a dream come true.
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Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
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The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
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Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.
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The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer.
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There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.