Neil Sedaka Quotes
Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
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On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!
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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
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Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
