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#26

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 1:43pm

From Sunday in the Park with George:

"It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do."

Words to live by.

#27

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 1:46pm

More from SUNDAY:

I chose, and my world was shaken--so what?
The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.
You have to move on.

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"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#28

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 1:51pm

"Sometimes people leave you,
Halfway through the woods.
Never let it grieve you,
No one leaves for good."

Pretty much anything from Into the Woods.

#29

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 2:14pm

"You can't stop my happiness 'cause I LIKE the way I am.
And you just can't stop my knife and fork when I see, a Christmas ham.
So if you don't like the way I look well, I just don't give a damn...!" -Edna, 'You Can't Stop the Beat' - HAIRSPRAY.

#30

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 2:18pm

Love all of the suggestions so far!

Also:

Oh, it's time to start livin'
Time to take a little from this world we're given
Time to take time, cause spring will turn to fall
In just no time at all....

- Pippin

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"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

#31

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 2:19pm

What doesn't kill me doesn't kill me. -Next to Normal

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"That was the most offensive thing I've seen in 20 years of teaching. And that includes an elementary school production of Hair." -Glee

#32

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 2:27pm

Henry in next to normal:

Sometimes life isn't sane
But crazy I know I can do
Cause crazy is perfect
And ****ed up is perfect
So I will be perfect

just substitute a less colorful word for ****ed :)

#33

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 3:18pm

From "Everybody Says Don't" - Anyone Can Whistle:

"Everybody says don't,
Everybody says can't,
Everybody says wait around for miracles,
That's the way the world is made!
I insist on
Miracles, if YOU do them,
Miracles - nothing to them!
I say don't,
Don't be afraid!"

Updated On: 1/7/11 at 03:18 PM

#34

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 3:58pm

"I won't fail so you can be comfortable, Cathy. I will not lose because you can't win."
"if I didn't believe in you, and all of the ten thousand women you are"
"Trip us or trap us, but we refuse to fall"

L5Y

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"I've never encountered such religiously, you know, loyal fans as Broadway musical theater fans. It's amazing." --Allison Janney

#35

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 4:16pm

Nothing lasts,
Life goes on,
Full of surprises.
You'll be faced with problems of all shapes and sizes.
You're going to have to make a few compromises...
For now

Don't stress,
Relax,
Let life roll off your backs
Except for death and paying taxes,
Everything in life is only for now!
----Avenue Q "For Now"

It's time now to sing out,
the story never ends let's celebrate remember a year in the life of friends.
---Rent "Seasons of Love"

and all shall know the wonder
of purple summer...
---Spring Awakening "Song of Purple Summer"

#36

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 4:28pm

Boobs and butt won't get you jobs, unless they're yours.

Oops, scratch that. I see you said it has to be relevant for all ages. Senior citizens wouldn't need this wisdom.

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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#37

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 4:37pm

Living well is the best revenge- Merrily We Roll Along.

#38

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 5:37pm

"There is not one of you who cannot win the Kingdom -- the slow, the suffering, the quick, the dead." -- Jesus Christ Superstar

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"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from." ~ Charles M. Schulz

#39

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 5:41pm

If you reach for the stars all you get are the stars. If you reach for the heavens you get the stars thrown in.

#40

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 5:52pm

Possibly on the inappropriate side, but

"Start by admitting from cradle to tomb isn't that long a stay."
-Cabaret

That song (the title song of the musical), if taken out of context, has some good messages.

#41

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 6:22pm

I think this one from Assassins ought to be taken out of context:

"Everybody's
Got the right
To be happy.
Don't stay mad,
Life's not as bad
As it seems.
If you keep your
Goal in sight,
You can climb to
Any height.
Everybody's
Got the right
To their dreams..."

#42

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 8:47pm

I'm thankful for everyday that I'm given,
both the easy and hard ones I'm livin'.

The Color Purple

#43

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 8:50pm

"Good riddance to bad rubbish"--GYPSY

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#44

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 9:38pm

"Careful the tale you tell; that is the spell."

-ITW

#45

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 10:19pm

"Paciencia y Fe" - In the Heights

#46

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 10:21pm

Men our stupid. Men are vain.
Love's disgusting. Love's insane.

#47

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 10:26pm

"except for death and paying taxes everything in life, is only for now" ave Q

#48

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 10:33pm

"My lands only borders lie around my heart" - CHESS, although only if you are some sort of fugitive.

#49

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/7/11 at 11:00pm

When all chase after happiness,
Happiness comes in last.
- The Threepenny Opera (1976 revival)

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"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

#50

What are your favorite words of wisdom from a musical?

Posted: 1/8/11 at 2:54am

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die. That is how the time goes by.
Kander and Ebb ... Zorba

Life's a party, why don't you come to the Steel Pier.
Kander and Ebb Steel Pier.

What good is sitting alone in your room, come to the cabaret,
Life is a Cabaret, old chum.. Come to the cabaret.
Kander and Ebb Cabaret