Neil Young Quotes
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
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Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.
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Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.
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No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when we tell them that they - and we - are ungodly people who cannot impress God or escape his tribunal. Until our preaching of the law has exposed our hearts and God's holiness at that profound level, our hearers will never flee to Christ alone for safety even if they come to us for advice.
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The devil fools with the best laid plans.