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)
Quotes to Explore
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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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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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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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My advice is you've got to make sure you wear the clothes and not let the clothes wear you. It's quite simple in a way. Don't wear something you totally feel uncomfortable with, but take some chances. Play around a bit. I felt very uncomfortable in suits when I was younger, so what I just started doing was wearing suits when I was going to dinner. I used to overdress a little bit so I got used to wearing suits. Now wearing a suit is like wearing a track suit for me. So it's all good.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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Our show is about starting over.
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The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.
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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)
