Neil Young Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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The fans treated me royally.
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I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
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Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
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My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.
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Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
