Neil Peart Quotes

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• Working gets in the way of living.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Way
  • Working
  • Living

• By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Children
  • Society

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Deep
  • Thought
  • Enjoy

• Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Story
  • Own
  • Ending

• The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Story
  • Nobody

• Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen - something that doesn't always come naturally to people in politics.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • People
  • Together
  • Stop

• I get hit on by the hottest girls ever. Oh my god, if I was a lesbian, I would be so in luck. But it's just not my thing. I've always batted for the boys' team.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • God
  • Girl
  • Team

• She pulled it off, ... It was her voice and that take-no-prisoners attitude when she's onstage, she was just out there, hungry to be the star.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • She
  • Star
  • Attitude

• Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Think
  • Star
  • Wishing

• I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Day
  • Grandparents

• People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

  

  Asia Argento
  • People
  • Sex
  • Healthy

• I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Women

• The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Time
  • Long
  • Term

• Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

  

  Billy Joel
  • Why
  • Together
  • Sing

• I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Attention
  • Humans
  • Pay

• Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Parents
  • Born
  • Las Vegas

• The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

  

  Alexander Fraser Tytler
  • Age
  • Spiritual
  • Liberty

• I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Sing
  • Onstage
  • Drums