Neil Sedaka Quotes

I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.

Neil Sedaka

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• I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Arts
  • Awards

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Thoughts
  • Negative
  • Internal

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Great
  • She
  • Play

• They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Job
  • Daily

• I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Grace

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Remember
  • Daughter
  • Driver

• Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• Romney, like Sen. John McCain and Bob Dole before him, were meant to mollify moderates, attract Independents, and 'rebrand' the party in a way that mostly fits the ideal of media types who would never vote Republican anyhow. Each of them lost.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Lost
  • Party

• Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Remember
  • American Citizens
  • Common Country

• You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Stop
  • Leadership

• I'm a huge art buff.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Art

• I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.

  

  Neil Sedaka
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