Neil Sedaka Quotes

I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

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• When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Wealth

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
  • Old
  • Barber

• I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Fighting

• Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Help
  • Team
  • Present

• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

  Fat Joe
  • House
  • Food
  • Moving

• The muses visit when I'm lonely.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Lonely
  • Visit
  • Muses

• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Scared

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Responsibility

• Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Knocks
  • Cling

• Don't kill the golden goose.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Golden
  • Goose

• Come all you mad and raging fearless friends of war and peace, Come all you sad self-righteous frightened friends down on your bended knees, All beings on this earth, you must not harm them; All weapons you hold deep within your heart, you must disarm them. Every man you meet's your son. Every woman is your daughter. Go find someeone who's thirsty, And give them water.

  

  Butch Hancock
  • Friends
  • War
  • Peace

• When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Live
  • Amazing
  • Weather

• I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

  

  Neil Sedaka
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