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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It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.
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The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
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By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
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At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.
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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.
