Neil Young Quotes
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
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An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.
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Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.
