Neil Young Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I've been very lucky.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I am anal about my Gmail calendar. It's my life. I put everything in there - my to-do list, or even if I want to do things.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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I think it's most important to, rather than just do what everybody else is doing, like tons of selfies, find out what makes you excited. You know, is it taking pictures and doing cool makeup and making yourself look great? If so, wonderful. Is it music? Is it teaching something? Are you great at teaching?
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Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.
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Music is inarticulate poesy.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
