Neil Young Quotes
I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.
Quotes to Explore
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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Actors don't have real value.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.
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I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
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I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
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I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.
