Neil Finn Quotes
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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Pain is never permanent.
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I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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Give me a title and we'll start from there.
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When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.
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Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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The success of the long-established relationship between the liberal/socialist/progressives and the Black Talented Tenth has been due to their commonality in commitment to an ideology and self-aggrandizement above all else.
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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
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I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.
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I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.