Neil Peart Quotes

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

Neil Peart

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The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

HeartPastGreenYouPlaceMean

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Matt Damon

LifeMyselfPeopleMeEnoughWorth

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Anil Kapoor

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Capitalism works.

Michael Bloomberg

CapitalismWorks

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Sun Tzu

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Every day, I was on the street dribbling, doing skills. I wasn't in an academy till I was 19.

Riyad Mahrez

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I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

Ron White

WorkLoveWalkPeopleLaughHard

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.

Matt Bomer

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The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

Mika

StarsMusicYouWayNeverStar

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

Jon Ronson

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I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

Diablo Cody

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