There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.


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Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.
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Then, once he had eaten, he would ask the spirits for guidance. Their guidance was pretty useless, b...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of.
The Bloody-Nine...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crim...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.
JOE ABERCROMBIE
You keep your guard too low, I am afraid. You are full of passion, but passion without discipline is...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond s...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that ...
NEIL KINNOCK
I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
VINCE NEIL
I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire aft...
VINCE NEIL
With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
VINCE NEIL
I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with t...
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