Neil Young Quotes
I was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyes.I was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the sky.There was a band playing in my headAnd I felt like getting high.I was thinking about what aFriend had saidI was hoping it was a lie.
Quotes to Explore
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
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So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
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One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
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'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will be handled properly is just naive. But I think that's anyone's life, right? Even if you're running a construction site, it doesn't matter if you've been doing it for 20 years, you're still going to be blindsided by someone's incompetence or indifference.
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I was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyes.I was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the sky.There was a band playing in my headAnd I felt like getting high.I was thinking about what aFriend had saidI was hoping it was a lie.
