Neil Young Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.
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I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.
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You're all just pissin' in the wind,You don't know it but you are.
