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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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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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've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
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That the variations are controlled by physiological law, we have now experimental proof; but that this control is guided ever so little in response to the needs of adaptation there is not the smallest sign.
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Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.
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I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.
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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.
