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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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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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 try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.
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Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
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As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.
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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.