Neil Sedaka Quotes

I was one of the first American rock n' rollers in the '50s to go to many foreign countries. It's a wonderful thing to go out and spread joy and love rather than hate.

Neil Sedaka

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• Hate
• Joy
• Rock

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• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Opportunity
  • Wanted
  • Heat

• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Progress

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Myself
  • Write
  • Down

• I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Real
  • Speak
  • I Can

• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Sales

• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Know

• In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• I've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Up
  • Couple

• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Been
  • Netflix

• Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Looking

• I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Camera
  • Treat

• The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Doubt
  • Sympathy
  • Confusion

• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Know

• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • People
  • Luck

• A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Forever

• The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow... We keep it nice and simple.

  

  Emily Browning
  • Money
  • American
  • Nice

• I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.'

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • American
  • Wall

• There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner's World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• I was one of the first American rock n' rollers in the '50s to go to many foreign countries. It's a wonderful thing to go out and spread joy and love rather than hate.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • American
  • Hate
  • Joy