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.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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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.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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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.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
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When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?
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It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.
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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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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.
