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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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 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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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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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Certainly in my youth there was lots of singing, lots of storytelling, and whenever we went to a party, you had to do a party piece, like sing songs, recite poems, or tell stories. That sort of narrative musical culture was my upbringing.
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Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused.
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My son's 8 he loves his skateboarding and his bike and his snowboard.
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I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.
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Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.
