Barry Mann Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
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You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
