Neil Innes Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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I want to serve the people.
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Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.
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Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
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Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
