Neil Peart Quotes
The world weighs on my shouldersBut what am I to do?You sometimes drive me crazyBut I worry about youI know it makes no differenceTo what you’re going throughBut I see the tip of the icebergAnd I worry about you... - Distant Early Warning (1984)
Quotes to Explore
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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The world weighs on my shouldersBut what am I to do?You sometimes drive me crazyBut I worry about youI know it makes no differenceTo what you’re going throughBut I see the tip of the icebergAnd I worry about you... - Distant Early Warning (1984)
