Neil Sedaka Quotes
Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.
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I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.
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My mom's one of the toughest ladies I know. I've seen her lose both her brothers, both her parents. She's been through a lot, and to see her get up every day and put a smile on her face, that shows nothing but strength.
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Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
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I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.
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Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.
