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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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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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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There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
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I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.
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We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
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Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.
