Neil Peart Quotes
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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'One to the other / Unos á otros' - Thus goes the world. We mock at and deceive each other. He who, yesterday, was the ball, is to-day the horseman in the ring. Fortune directs the feast, and distributes the parts according to the inconstancy of its caprice.
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The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
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Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest.
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... thou shall not steal, even by majority vote ...
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And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
