Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my … - Barry Manilow

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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

Barry Manilow

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

Came, Done, Family, Life, Old Friends, Our Family

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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

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The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

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Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it's a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.

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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

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Michel de Montaigne

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

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Chelsea Leyland

When in doubt, just throw your hair in a topknot

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John Selden

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

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Tony Dungy

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

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