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Neil Sedaka Quotes

I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 13, 1939

Topics

People Brooklyn Poor Poor People Us

I don't care for physical activity. I'm not sporty. I'm not very coordinated.

Care Activity Physical Activity Very

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

Truth Truth Is Country Go Drink

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.

Me Listening World Bad Born New

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.

Dress People Me Speak Design Ice

I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.

Experience I Am Think Chair Stronger

But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Music World Think You Find Living

I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.

Myself Best Job Thought Pressure

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

Fear Working Confrontation

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

Interesting Find Try More Project

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

Christopher Hitchens

Myself Consider Credulous

I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.

Religion Me Ideas Doing Everything

'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

Anthony Bourdain

New York Kitchen Restaurant New Line

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