Neil Peart Quotes
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
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I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.
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If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
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Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. The bread Will be our bread, the stone will be Our bed and we shall sleep by night. We shall forget by day, except The moments when we choose to play The imagined pine, the imagined jay.
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To Mankind And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next Lisa Leslie.
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
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But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...
