Neil Young Quotes
It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
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Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
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He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.
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I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.
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Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.
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It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.
