Neil Peart Quotes
How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)
Quotes to Explore
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their news pages. In some ways, I think, 'Well, how is that even possible?' It seems sometimes that that's all that there is.
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I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.
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Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.
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I just don't like to talk about my personal success against somebody.
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Great loves too must be endured.
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With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
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How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)
