Geddy Lee Weinrib (Geddy Lee) Quotes
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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Wouldn't it be exciting if all women just went on strike? Just a woman's strike. Everything would fall apart pretty quickly then, wouldn't it?
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Martin Luther King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
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One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
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When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.
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For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
