Neil Peart Quotes
What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I'm not graceful.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries you back beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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What you have witnessed since Christopher Hitchens’s opposition to the 1991 invasion of Iraq is something unique in natural history: the first ever metamorphosis of a butterfly into a slug.
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My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
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What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
