Neil Peart Quotes
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
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Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.
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Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.
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When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.
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I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now. - Time Stand Still (1987)
