Neil Innes Quotes
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
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So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.
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We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.
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I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.
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Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.
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But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
