Neil Young Quotes

The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

Neil Young Buffalo Springfield

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• The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Small

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Thinking
  • Cool
  • Geographic

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Good
  • Great
  • Artist

• I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Responsibility
  • Justice
  • Cancer

• I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Money
  • Movie

• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Health
  • Responsibility
  • Accountability

• There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Responsibility
  • Public
  • Must

• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Country

• I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • Radio
  • Big

• Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Thinking

• I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Rock

• Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

  

  Win Butler
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Experience

• I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Die

• I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • God
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably have more money to throw around, and they suborn former U.S. intelligence officials, former ambassadors, former generals to support them from within by lobbying the Congress and other American institutions.

  

  Michael Scheuer
  • Support
  • Institutions
  • Former

• The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility
  • Artist