Neil Peart Quotes
To you, is it movement, or is it action?Is it contact or just reaction?And you, revolution, just resistance?Is it living, or just existence? - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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A triathlon is on my bucket list. I started training a long time ago, and my life took a different turn: Things happen; work happens. I will definitely accomplish that at some point!
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
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What they've found so far in the Amazon is 5 percent of what there is yet to discover to eat in the Amazon because it's completely unknown. I've eaten things I've never eaten before over there.
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After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
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We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.
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I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.
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To you, is it movement, or is it action?Is it contact or just reaction?And you, revolution, just resistance?Is it living, or just existence? - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
