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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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 found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
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I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong.
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The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess - Ghost Rider (2002)