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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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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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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I saw myself as Joan of Arc.
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There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
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This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.
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Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
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I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
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My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.
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But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
