We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade and a new kind of music was emerging.


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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs ...
HORACE MANN
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many mor...
HORACE MANN
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
HORACE MANN
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simpl...
THOMAS MANN
Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
THOMAS MANN
The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling,...
THOMAS MANN
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borro...
HORACE MANN
Sports should always be fun.
CHARLES MANN
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount ...
THOMAS MANN
Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
THOMAS MANN
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions...
HORACE MANN
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN
Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.
HORACE MANN
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering...
HORACE MANN
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
HORACE MANN
What is uttered is finished and done with.
THOMAS MANN
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, ...
THOMAS MANN
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once m...
THOMAS MANN
Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN
I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
SALLY MANN
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
THOMAS MANN
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...
THOMAS MANN
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced ...
AIMEE MANN
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversitie...
HORACE MANN
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endura...
THOMAS MANN
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
SALLY MANN
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ri...
HORACE MANN
Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
LESLIE MANN
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
HORACE MANN
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...
HORACE MANN
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to......
GABRIEL MANN
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamon...
HORACE MANN