Neil Sedaka Quotes
America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.
Neil Sedaka
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
Ramon Rodriguez
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
Randy Houser
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In America, public opinion is the leader.
Frances Perkins
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
Tamron Hall
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
Tea Leoni
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
Natalia Kills
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I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.
Saif Ali Khan
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
Utada Hikaru
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When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
Natalie Massenet
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
Walter Lang
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In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.
Rabih Alameddine
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You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.
Afrika Bambaataa
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Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.
Jose Garces
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There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.
LeBron James
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I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.
Donna Douglas
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America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.
Neil Sedaka