Neil Peart Quotes
Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway.
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My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.
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Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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You are repetitious and stupid.
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'Don’t worry,' he told her.'Me?' she said. 'I never worry. It’s all going to end badly whether I worry or not.'
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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
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I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.
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In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
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I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.
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Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.
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It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.
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No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.
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Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.
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In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.
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Nature hates calculators.
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I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.
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We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
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Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway.
