Neil Peart Quotes

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

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• Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Responsibility
  • Creativity

• When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Why
  • Change
  • Focus

• Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Price
  • Expensive
  • Ducks

• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Good
  • Why
  • Door

• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers. I sort of became the third musketeer.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Time
  • Parents

• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Nice
  • Funeral

• If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Cat

• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Thoughts

• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Name
  • Greatest
  • Accident

• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Children

• I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Way
  • Word

• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Long
  • Education

• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Mind

• The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Emotion

• I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • Time
  • Success
  • Always

• Integrity safeguards love, and love makes family life rich and zestful-now and forever.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Forever
  • Integrity
  • Rich

• Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Drummer
  • I Want