Neil Young Quotes
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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'Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess,' he said quietly. 'Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their conscience with the gift of survival.'Miriamele thought about the obvious truth of what Cadrach had said as they walked on, but could not understand why it made her so unutterably sad.
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I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.
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You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.
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The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
