Barry Manilow Quotes
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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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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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
