Neil Peart Quotes
I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
Quotes to Explore
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I think I need security.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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What you see is what you get.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
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I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
