Melissa Manchester Quotes
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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I still say to myself when I am depressed and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people 'Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.'
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The thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos, hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay At what the god had wrought To please her son, the strong Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles Who would not live long.
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Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
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When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.
