Oscar Hammerstein II Quotes

Oscar Hammerstein II (12)

Birth:	12th July, 1895
Death:	23rd August, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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• You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

• You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

  Oscar Hammerstein II

• What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

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• There is nothin’ like a dame.

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• The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

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• The dearest things I know are what you are.

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

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• If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

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• I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.

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• Do you love me because I’m beautiful,
  or am I am beautiful because you love me?

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  Topics in Beauty, Love

• Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

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• A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it, A song’s not a song ’til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!

  Oscar Hammerstein II