Neil Young Quotes

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Funny

• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Way
  • Always
  • Guess

• I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Doing
  • Something
  • Sure

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Mother
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Great
  • Food
  • Cooking

• I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Thought
  • End

• Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Why

• I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • True

• How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Free

• I kidnap children from bathrooms I eat the children for breakfast They were so young Yum Yum Yum

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Children
  • Breakfast

• Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Men

• I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
  • Good
  • Small

• 'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, 'almost' Bordeaux.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Red
  • Wine
  • Purple

• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Perfect
  • Profession
  • Idiots

• I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Done
  • Rip

• If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Night
  • Purpose
  • Sweet

• Welfare mothers make better lovers.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield