Neil Diamond Quotes

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

Neil Diamond

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• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

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• People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.

  

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• We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

  

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• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

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• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

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• I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

  

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• I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.

  

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• It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

  

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• There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

  

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• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

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• When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

  

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• There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

  

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• Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

  

  Neil Diamond
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  • Song
  • Way