Neil Young Quotes

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

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• By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Time
  • Job
  • Team

• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Church
  • Social
  • Ethical

• When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

  

  Iman
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Struggle

• I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Like

• I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Death
  • Man
  • Black

• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Art
  • You
  • Floor

• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Child
  • Wanted
  • Surgeon

• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Christian

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• Television isn't my career. Business is.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Business
  • Career
  • Television

• In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Women
  • Power
  • Freedom

• If there is one quality that I find is more essential to a successful and happy life than any other, it is empathy. It is at the core of family stability and love. I’ve never had a couple come to me and say, 'I want a divorce; my partner understands me.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Food

• I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Victory

• Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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