Barry Mann Quotes
If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I love nature.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 million each. Is that enough?
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My skin is very sensitive.
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
