Neil Peart Quotes
You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
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There's a couple of things you shouldn't do to other humans and you shouldn't say to other humans that Khal Drogo does.
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The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.
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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
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We didn't know that the (Jackson) family was as nuts as we're now finding out. Who knew that Michael was the normal one??
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It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.
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You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.
