Neil Peart Quotes
There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
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Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
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Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan for a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
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There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.
