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And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.


Neil Innes

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KELLY JONES This was everything he wanted, everything he needed, and Neil was never letting go.
NORA SAKAVIC Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.
JULIANA HATFIELD Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all ...
MERRY CLAYTON I said you lie, knave!” shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. “And for telling such craven false...
GERALD MORRIS Simon is in his second season with us, helping with the forwards, and Neil has been helping with his...
CHRIS DAVEY The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart C...
TAYLOR HAWKINS It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
TERRY SOUTHERN That guy was Neil Sedaka, ... We also grew up with Carole King and Neil Diamond. We all grew up toge...
JAY SIEGEL Last year 304 shoeboxes were sent from the Glen Innes collection centre,
DEBBIE SMITH It's Neil [Simon]'s best writing, because it was about his brother,
DANNY SIMON God knows Everyone. God knows Everything. God knows everything about everyone.
APURVA GAGLANI Everything is 5 elements. Everyone is only One. There is no Second. So God knows Everything. And God...
APURVA GAGLANI Everything around the gallery was destroyed. But Antonio's robots right inside the door were fine. I...
BILL ROSS Crandall was going through lobbyists like crazy. A lot of it was dealing with Crandall and his perso...
CHARLES BARCLAY I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robo...
DAVID HANSON I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil'...
JACK IRONS Even when I was in Cuba, I hear of Roger Clemens, and I was a big admirer. I'd heard so much about h...
JOSE CONTRERAS In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.
NEIL INNES Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
NEIL INNES We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and thi...
NEIL INNES But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles...
NEIL INNES I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
NEIL INNES We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and o...
NEIL INNES It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And ...
NEIL INNES But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
NEIL INNES As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite mak...
NEIL INNES I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
NEIL INNES Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK It's worked before between Pedro [Martinez] and Schilling, and I pitched behind Roger [Clemens] when...
TIM WAKEFIELD Neil loved his brother, so he was able to treat Felix, though he was a pain in the neck, with love. ...
DANNY SIMON She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER We had two men to choose from, and Neil Armstrong, reticent, soft-spoken, and heroic was our only ch...
CHRIS KRAFT The family is devastated. There were no signs or symptoms that Neil was abusing his daughter.
JOE BIRKETT Neil didn't negotiate with me. Walter and Casey did.
BARRY ALVAREZ Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because ...
DANIEL H. WILSON We are very pleased to have Roger join our board of directors. With his international and management...
JOHN HALEY We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironi...
BILL KURTIS For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, j...
C.S. LEWIS [We use] the arts to help people with mental health issues back into the mainstream and having a pat...
MATTHEW TAYLOR How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoust...
BOB MOULD Roger Federer is the best player in the world. He wins everything,
RAFAEL NADAL Mishaque was a stouty blend of Irish "shrek" mixed with crazy Jafakain, his front was car dealing.
SAIRA VIOLA Eleven reasons you want to become a robot:

1. Robots are logical and know their purpose....
A. MERC RUSTAD My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fel...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not...
KRISTIN CHENOWETH but not with my robots.
DAVID GUSTAFSON I am really close friends with Roger Federer and also with Benoit Paire.
STANISLAS WAWRINKA Old robots are becoming more human and young humans are becoming more like robots.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS This,” Neil flicked his finger to indicate the two of them, “isn’t worthless.”
“There...
NORA SAKAVIC That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ...
SUSAN CARTWRIGHT Pretty much, everything went crazy. I was in disbelief. Stunned, actually.
CULLIE BRUMETT The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Pat...
MADI DIAZ in the court of public opinion that he, and not Neil Bush, is the father of his son.
ROBERT ANDREWS Gene Clark was in the Christy Minstrels. He left. And so when Gene and David and Roger got together ...
BARRY MCGUIRE It's been a crazy week. Everything that was supposed to work flopped.
BEN HOLMES I admire Roger Federer, not only for his tennis but also for his personality.
ANA IVANOVIC This was basically a vote of no confidence for Roger Toussaint. It undermines his credibility back a...
DAVID GREGORY This is an incredible package of images and photographs that capture the career of Roger Federer. We...
CHRIS AMOROSO Roger was taken short of breath and fell to the floor on stage.
GARETH OWEN You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in...
JONI MITCHELL Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
MICKEY MANTLE What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s...
ED O'BRIEN We are astonished and devastated to learn of the hidden life of Neil Entwistle. We never suspected t...
JOSEPH FLAHERTY And he was right. Roger had a plan for how to move the snow.
KEN KETTENBEIL I was 20 and was really taken by surprise. So, I try to stay away from everything because I know how...
MAXIME OUELLET The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic mono...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE He tried to act like he was happy for us and smiled, but you could tell it was eating him up inside....
BRAD AUSMUS He tried to act like he was happy for us and smiled, but you could tell it was eating him up inside,...
BRAD AUSMUS Hoffman will win. It's a crazy character, and Oscars like crazy people, and they want to give him a ...
HAL SPARKS One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thin...
FREDDIE MERCURY [S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with bloo...
MAX BARRY Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and ...
GRAHAM MCTAVISH This is my reassured face," Neil said, pointing up at his blank expression.
NORA SAKAVIC So much emotion, so much passion, everything was moving through my body. It's crazy.
APOLO ANTON OHNO It's just crazy. This is worse than 9-11, with everything that's going on with that.
CHRIS CARR Roger Kahn is someone with a gazillion dollars who thinks that he can use his vast fortune to buy te...
PHIL GINGREY Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY I think Roger is one of the fiercest competitors I've seen, ... It reflects in the way he approaches...
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We...
NEIL GAIMAN I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
NEIL GAIMAN The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke...
NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,...
NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...
NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody...
NEIL GAIMAN You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
NEIL GAIMAN What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�...
NEIL GAIMAN I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie...
NEIL GAIMAN Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�...
NEIL GAIMAN You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
NEIL GAIMAN