Neil Peart Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.
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I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
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People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.
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I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.
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The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.
