Neil Sedaka Quotes
I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I love to write.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
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The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
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You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been
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As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.
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I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.
