Neil Sedaka Quotes

I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

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• One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Understand
  • Difficult

• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • True
  • Attention
  • Young

• I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Anxiety

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Human
  • Movies
  • Bold

• I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Today
  • Best
  • inspirational

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Science
  • Dad

• I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Kids
  • Couple

• I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Book
  • Think

• It's always about the music, never about anything else.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Always
  • Never

• I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • I Believe

• My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Important
  • Science
  • Feeling

• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  

  Burke Marshall
  • Respect
  • Army
  • Drug

• The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Ability
  • Down

• I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The day I feel my clothes are no longer relevant, I will be happy to step down.

  

  John Rocha
  • Happy

• I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Army
  • Cousin