Barry Manilow Quotes
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.
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Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
