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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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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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
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I felt like that growing up - that I didn't have a voice.
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The potential of any new technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors. (p. 210)
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I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
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Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
