Neil Simon Quotes
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.
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Dr. Bronner's is the best. My mom had Dr. Bronner's around since I was a little kid, and I've used it in the shower as soap ever since.
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After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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How sweet! You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.
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Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.
