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Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'

Stephen Sondheim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 22, 1930

Topics

Great Time Song Game You Way

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Ambrose Bierce

Good Patriotism War Country Hard

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.

Soundarya

Problem Never Rivalry Far Concerned

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

Tom Chatfield

Nature Time Whatever Begin Motion

My favourite position is as midfielder, playing with Xabi and Khedira.

Luka Modric

Position Playing Favourite

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

Joyce Meyer

Think Just Than Many Female Overall

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

Jon Bon Jovi

Me Song Thought DJ Long Goodness

I think I didn't win a match for one, one-and-a-half years.

Dominic Thiem

Win Think Years Match I Think

The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.

Colson Whitehead

Work Job Me Story New Out

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Philip Guston

Painting You Look Inspired Like Any

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Richard John Neuhaus

Love Community Hate Gay Sin Him

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

Rich Brian

Humor People Thought Satire Get Our

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Muhammad Ali

Mountains Climb You Ahead Shoe Out