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When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.


Neil Abercrombie

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VINCE NEIL I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own i...
VINCE NEIL Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just...
VINCE NEIL Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a ...
VINCE NEIL What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal...
NEIL PEART For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the...
NEIL MACGREGOR TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts...
NEIL POSTMAN I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This...
NEIL YOUNG The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vis...
NEIL GAIMAN When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
NEIL DIAMOND I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me...
NEIL YOUNG I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so...
NEIL YOUNG Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you'...
NEIL YOUNG I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
NEIL YOUNG I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
NEIL YOUNG I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
NEIL YOUNG When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you&...
NEIL YOUNG Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ...
NEIL YOUNG One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
NEIL YOUNG To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a s...
NEIL YOUNG The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the un...
NEIL YOUNG The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
NEIL YOUNG We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets...
NEIL YOUNG I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
NEIL YOUNG When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in t...
NEIL YOUNG Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.
NEIL YOUNG Rock and roll is here to stay.
NEIL YOUNG Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
NEIL YOUNG As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points ...
NEIL YOUNG It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
NEIL YOUNG Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that&#...
NEIL ARMSTRONG I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of th...
NEIL MARSHALL I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG People love conspiracy theories.
NEIL ARMSTRONG It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curv...
NEIL ARMSTRONG As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of min...
NEIL ARMSTRONG I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily...
NEIL ARMSTRONG NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and ac...
NEIL ARMSTRONG I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONG Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
NEIL ARMSTRONG I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
NEIL ARMSTRONG The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONG Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
NEIL ARMSTRONG