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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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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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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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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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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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
