Geddy Lee Weinrib (Geddy Lee) Quotes
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
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If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
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Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
