Neil Peart Quotes
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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A defendant who commences and continues to build a project, while a lawsuit is pending which challenges the legality of such a project, continues at the risk of abatement.
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
