Barry Manilow Quotes
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.
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'Frozen' is a phenomenon on an entirely new Disney scale.
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I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture - it's a town of entertainment.
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Over the last three or four years I drove every inch of Vegas and we walked into every casino. We even had some deals that went into agreements, but for one reason or another, it wasn't right. But this one was absolutely perfect.
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It's the rider's job to really understand what makes the horse work and try to think ahead of the horse so we understand what's going to happen and how the horse feels on that day.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
