"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."

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"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."

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"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."

Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear."

Steven Chu, American Scientist

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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Every country has it trade offs."

Peter Tork, American Musician

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"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."

Nancy Travis, American Actress

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"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."

Bill Cullen, American Entertainer

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"There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay."

Sandy Berger, American Public Servant

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"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."

Work

"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."

Work

"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."

Actor

"If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song."

Time

"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."

People

"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."

Growing up

"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."

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"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."

"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."

"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

"Every country has it trade offs."

"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."

"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."

"There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay."

Explore more quotes by Stephen Sondheim

"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."

"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."

"A close-up on screen can say all a song can."

"Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead."

"There's something inimical about the camera and song."

"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."

"If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song."

"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."

"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."

"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."