Neil Sedaka Quotes
'Love Will Keep Us Together' was a combination of three different singing styles - Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.
Quotes to Explore
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
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Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.
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I didn't come out as gay; I came out as I don't really believe in gender.
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I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
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Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.
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'Love Will Keep Us Together' was a combination of three different singing styles - Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.
