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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• 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.

  

  Banks
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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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
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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.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
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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.

  

  Kate Grenville
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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.

  

  Cameron Mathison
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• The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

  

  Mae Jemison
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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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.

  

  Kate Moss
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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.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
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• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
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• Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.

  

  Craig Sager
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• My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior... I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

  

  Adolf Hitler
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• Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.

  

  Paul Polman
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• Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous.

  

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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.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
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