Geddy Lee Weinrib (Geddy Lee) Quotes
I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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There is no one true church.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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The Thought Police: To censor and protect.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.
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When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.
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I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
