Barry Manilow Quotes
Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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This is a strange game.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I'm totally a geek.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.
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Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.
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We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.
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Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
