Neil Peart Quotes
Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
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Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.
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Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
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This is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.
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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
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Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training.
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
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Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
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For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.
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It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place - everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
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Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
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The only standard journalists respect is: Will this story promote the left-wing agenda?
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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
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I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
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Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)
