Neil Innes Quotes
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I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The world is no longer against us.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Sometimes I feel edgy, sometimes I feel like I want to wear a bright, bold beautiful color.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
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I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
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Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
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I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.
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Therefore, why not plastic forms in motion?. ..one can compose motions.
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I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked.
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.
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I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.
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There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.
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My dream role would be to play a femme fatale in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
