Marvin Hamlisch Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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I'm torn between wanting to connect with what I grew up with and what's available, living in Brooklyn. I don't have a grimy supermarket that decapitates frogs' heads nearby.
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'So in everything, do to others what you would have them to do to you, for this sums up the war and the prophets.' That is the golden rule. Do unto others, what you would have them do to you. That is the golden rule, and it is not very complicated.
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MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.
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I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
