"I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me."

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Source : "'On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 21, 2010.

Stephen Sondheim

#Ideas Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Cry Quotes

“Every person is a new door to a different world.”
“We have no idea what lies ahead or how God will open doors of potentiality when we consciously choose to get out of the ruts we're in and start moving down new paths about which we can be excited--even passionate.”

Source : Luci Swindoll (2003). “I Married Adventure”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc
“No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.”
“The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.”
“If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.”
“The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.”
“I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.”
“Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.”

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