Neil Young Quotes
You are like a hurricaneThere's calm in your eye.And I'm gettin' blown awayTo somewhere saferWhere the feeling stays.I want to love you butI'm getting blown away.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I like to do Pilates.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
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When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.
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Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.
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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
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Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
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Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.
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You are like a hurricaneThere's calm in your eye.And I'm gettin' blown awayTo somewhere saferWhere the feeling stays.I want to love you butI'm getting blown away.
