Neil Peart Quotes
Today is different, and tomorrow the same.It's hard to take the world the way that it came.Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.Too many captains keep on steering us wrong.It's hard to take the heat.It's hard to lay blame.To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. - Second Nature (1987)
Quotes to Explore
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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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.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Music is a language.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.
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The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Tous maux sont pareils alors qu’ils sont extrêmes.
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People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences associated with their spiritual path.
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I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
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Today is different, and tomorrow the same.It's hard to take the world the way that it came.Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.Too many captains keep on steering us wrong.It's hard to take the heat.It's hard to lay blame.To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. - Second Nature (1987)
