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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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.
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When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
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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.
