Barry Manilow Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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Hear the other side.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
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You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
