Neil Innes Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.
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For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.
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I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
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I find the ball, and I think, 'Where's the ball going, and where do I need to go?' It just puts me back in the game, and it's the simplest thing, but it's become sort of like my soccer mantra. I simply use the ball as my focus point and move back into position, and the distracting thoughts disappear, and I'm right back in the game.
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I'd say from our momentum point of view, it took us a long time to get to that point in the game. It's significant for us to get a roll on going into their last innings.
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We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.
