Renee Elise Goldsberry We are all good at things – a varied assortment of things – and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose. – Renee Elise Goldsberry Assortment Quotes Confidence Quotes Desperately Quotes Identity Quotes People Quotes Purpose Quotes Selfesteem Quotes Varied Quotes I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think sometimes when we write musicals now, we keep writing in that same style, as though that’s the musical theatre genre… We have to figure out how to tell stories with the music that we listen to now, or we’ll lose our audience. There’s a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere. If we fail to introduce them to art, we fail humanity.
Robert Jay Lifton And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life. – Robert Jay Lifton
Stacy Schiff What we know about Cleopatra’s looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and you ask for a coin to be engraved with your likeness on it, you are probably trying to project a certain air of authority. – Stacy Schiff
AloneThich Nhat Hanh Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Kaui Hart Hemmings People go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
Stephen Mangan I don’t like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from ‘Shrek’ about me. – Stephen Mangan
Madame de Stael Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. – Madame de Stael
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