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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We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives.
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And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
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I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.
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My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
