Jule Styne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine.
-- Jule Styne

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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.
Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
Iâ€™m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.

Jule Styne famous quotes

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