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Stephen Sondheim Quotes

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Stephen Sondheim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Woman Me Ambition Hands She

We've invented a new marketplace. There was no easy way to rent a person's bedroom over the Internet or book a vacation rental over the Internet. There was no guidebook for us to turn to as we defined this new marketplace.

Joe Gebbia

Vacation Book Internet Easy Person

When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly.

John Lithgow

Experience Me Remember Uncle Go Old

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

Robert J. Waldinger

Live Health Happy People Brain Find

When I was 14, I couldn't be bothered to tweeze my eyebrows, so I would shave them in between. One time, my hand slipped, and I had half an eyebrow.

Suki Waterhouse

Time Hand Eyebrows Half Eyebrow

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

Sloane Crosley

Life People Small Grow Friends You

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

Misha Glenny

World Know Two Been Those Companies

We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

Mitch McConnell

Country Too Much Person Sound Years

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

Donella Meadows

Changes Assessment Almost Made Rate

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

Corey Feldman

Name Famous My Own Own Knew Before

My biggest competition is me.

Ciara

Competition Me Biggest

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Brendan Myers

Time Moment Civilization Birth Whole

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

Bruce Davison

Good Interesting Actor Good Actor