Neil Young Quotes
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
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Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.
