Neil Diamond Quotes
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I like things simple.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?
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Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.
