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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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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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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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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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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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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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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The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.
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Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
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When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
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I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.
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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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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)
