Oscar Hammerstein II quotes:

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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.
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
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!
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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.
Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.
Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.
Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.
When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.
These are a few of my favorite things.
You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?
I'm as corny as Kansas in August.
The dearest things I know are what you are.
If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too
If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.
Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.
There is nothin' like a dame.
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what you are giving to it. I cannot prove that this is a balance of mathematical perfection, but my own observation of life leads me to the conclusion that there is a very real friendship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of life.
For when I fool the people I fear, I fool myself as well.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.
Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.
Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.
I'd let my golden chances pass me by.
Berlin's great secret is that he says exactly what he means; sometimes he hits a gigantic line both musically and lyrically -- almost Wagnerian in its strength.
I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.
You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.
June is bustin' out all over.
I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
There is Nothing Like a Dame.
You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught.
Hello, Young Lovers, Wherever You Are.

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