Geddy Lee Weinrib (Geddy Lee) Quotes
I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
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I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.
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As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.
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In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
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I can't really comment on rumors.
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When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.
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In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
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Fans who drive insane amount of hours to come to a show still amazes me. I mean, it can get up to 10 hours! That's loyalty.
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What he wrote was this: The great tragedy of my life is that in my search for the Holy Grail everyone calls True Love, I see myself as Zorro, a romantic and mysterious highwayman - and the women I desire see me as Porky Pig.
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Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
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I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.
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Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.
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I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
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The danger of Americans being killed, the danger of divisiveness that would accrue from those developments ... are all too real. A superpower should not play that kind of role in a cauldron of trouble, because sooner or later we are going to get hurt.
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I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
