Neil Peart Quotes
No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
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In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.
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For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.
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Any woman that is willing to take control of their life and do what they want to do to make their living, I have a lot of respect for.
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I just like to bring energy. I always try to create a moment. Memories are important to me, and I like my look to go with the mood or the moment.
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No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)
