Stephen Sondheim Quotes

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Stephen Sondheim

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GoodMusicYourselfYouBecomeMore

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Jocko Willink

MistakesStupidLookingReputation

I can tell everything about a restaurant through their mussels. You have to work so hard to keep them perfect.

Andrew Zimmern

WorkRestaurantYouPerfectI Can

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Anna Quindlen

GodNew YorkPeopleNewSheReview

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

Michael Dell

GoodNumbersYearsSeemRoundLike

When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.

Robert Englund

MyselfFoolRedThinkDoingYou

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

MarriageMusicThinkPerfectTwo

In coming to New York, I got my first Broadway show six months after I got here. So that song, 'Movin' Too Fast,' means so much to me, knowing that feeling where it's just where you imagined yourself, but it's flying by you at a million miles an hour.

Joshua Henry

YourselfNew YorkMeSongFlying

Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.

Don Rose

WaterHotNeckGoneMaySinking

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

Donald Trump

WorldImpossibleLimitsDirection

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

Annette Funicello

StrongYouNowImpressionSomething

I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're still half the size of me!

Allison Janney

BeautifulMeKnowTallHeightSize

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Pope John XXIII

LoveGodMyselfManMeThinking

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