Neil Peart Quotes
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.
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I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.
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All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess - Ghost Rider (2002)
