Geddy Lee Weinrib (Geddy Lee) Quotes
Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity.
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It's not something someone sets out to do - I never really set out to make movies about strong fighting women, but it just seems to happen that way. I've certainly known some, and I think my sister was probably a big influence.
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I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.
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I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.
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Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
