"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive."

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Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

Barry Mann

#Negative Quotes #Turns Quotes

“I'm not interested in being gratuitously relatable and broadening out what I do in order to reach more people. When I'm going into specific details of the trauma, I think it's the details that connect with people. I'm accidentally relatable - I didn't mean to be, and I didn't think I would be. It feels like what I'm saying on stage is quite shameful and possibly perverted; so for other people to be laughing and go, "Oh, yes, we understand that. We are like that too," is very lovely.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It hit me like a thunderbolt!”
“It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.”
“It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.”
“A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.”
“The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.”
“As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.”
“I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.”

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