Neil Peart Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Just

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Prophet
  • Biblical

• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Style

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Fame
  • Away

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Sometimes
  • Angry
  • Perception

• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Music
  • Think
  • Example

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Strength

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rights

• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Fun
  • End
  • Circumstance

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There are very few people who could be imprisoned, kept away from their family and loved ones, and exit that same prison with such a powerful spirit of love and a desire for reconciliation.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • God
  • Family

• Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Remember
  • Gentleman
  • Dating

• I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Levels
  • Demon

• If you build your own chair, there is a lot of things that happen. You could probably buy a nice chair for less money than a chair that you built yourself, and it might even look better, but if you build that chair, you're going to take care of it and maintain it because it's your chair. If it breaks, you know how to fix it.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Money
  • Nice

• Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Morality