Neil Young Quotes

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
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• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Singing
  • Notes
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• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
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• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
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• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
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• I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Angry

• My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
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  • Kids

• The thing about death is that it's honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Death
  • Honest
  • About

• My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Home
  • She
  • House

• My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Different
  • Play
  • Problem

• After the first million, money isn't important.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Important
  • Money
  • First

• I love doing voiceover work.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Work
  • Doing
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• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Group

• In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Up
  • Control
  • Water

• Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Done
  • Charity

• I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

  

  Paula Creamer

• In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• Justice will win - because might does not make right, and the only path to lasting peace is when people know that their dignity will be respected and that their rights will be upheld. And citizens, like nations, will never settle for a world where the big are allowed to bully the small. Sooner or later, they fight back.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Good
  • Moving
  • Couple

• Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Lives

• When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Alone
  • Question

• I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • God
  • Preacher
  • Hangman