Neil Diamond Quotes
You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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It's such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being on a movie set isn't that different from being on 'Monday Night RAW.' It's all stuff that I was prepared for.
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The best thing to do if you start thinking such things is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.
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I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.
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You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
