Neil Diamond Quotes

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

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• Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

  

  Carl Safina
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• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
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• I haven't gotten a lot of feedback about, 'Oh, you helped me in this way.' But on social media, people are like, 'Thank you for your positive posts,' or 'It's fun to see you grow and your character. I feel like I'm growing with you.'

  

  Taylour Paige
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• In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
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• I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.

  

  Zach Anner
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• People believe what they want to believe.

  

  Tab Hunter
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• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.

  

  Carly Pope
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• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

  

  Jack Wagner
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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
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• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
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• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
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• While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box - office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it's the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.

  

  Willem Dafoe
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• Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I can have an accent and not have an accent, so it's really cool. I can play with it. I can be very Sofia Vergara, too, so it's really cool.

  

  Eiza Gonzalez
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• How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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  • Illness

• My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

  

  Neil Diamond
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