Neil Peart Quotes

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

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• But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Music
  • Words
  • Relationship

• True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • True
  • Father
  • Man

• Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Sometimes
  • Win
  • Fight

• O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Better
  • Say
  • Public

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Alone

• I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Teen
  • Valley
  • Typical

• All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Time
  • Different
  • Earth

• I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Job
  • Sleep
  • Period

• I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.

  

  Maluma
  • Music
  • Love
  • Artists

• 'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Song
  • Kiss
  • Twilight

• Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • World
  • Work
  • Love

• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• I am a forthright defender of the right to bear arms - which is guaranteed not only by the U.S. Constitution, but by the Constitution of Arizona.

  

  Doug Ducey

• I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Cute

• I'm an honest hoe, and all my hoes is honest.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Honest
  • Hoe

• Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Beginning
  • Battle
  • Losing

• Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Intelligence

• Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Kids

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer and the artist and to a lesser extent the editor, who typically is the silent partner, if you've got a good enough team. Whatever you put out is the author's intent. You have to be able to defend that, of course. You have no one to hide behind, or no one to blame but yourselves, which I find refreshing because I've found in film too many times I've been blamed for other people's decisions.

  

  Eric Heisserer
  • Artist
  • Risk
  • Writer

• When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Battle
  • Bands
  • Ambitions