Neil Young Quotes
Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
Quotes to Explore
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
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Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me... there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.
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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.
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Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
