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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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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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
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So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.
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Its central idea, it was noted, is the production of life through the tieing or union of spirit and matter.
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.
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I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
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The devil fools with the best laid plans.
