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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I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
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There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.
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When you're in a soap, it's fantastic, and I'm really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.
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It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.
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The summer day is closed - the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west. The green blade of the ground Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun; Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil, From bursting cells, and in their graves await Their resurrection. Insects from the pools Have filled the air awhile with humming wings, That now are still for ever; painted moths Have wandered the blue sky, and died again
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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
