Neil Young Quotes
In my little boxAt the top of the stairWith my Indian rugAnd a pipe to share.
Quotes to Explore
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.
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The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
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Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
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I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
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Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
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I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
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I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don't know if it's working all the time, but I'd rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.
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I like being part of a team.
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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A lot of people who have gone to music school have gotten their individuality stomped out of them. It becomes harder to find those instincts.
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If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.
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As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.
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My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.
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The death of the forest is the end of our life.
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I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.
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To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.
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Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.
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The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.
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Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.
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Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it he was safe from any kind of penetration from without. It was the only place where he felt free of the general idiocy of his fellows. His mother had never entered it but from it he could see her with absolute clarity.
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In my little boxAt the top of the stairWith my Indian rugAnd a pipe to share.
