Geddy Lee Weinrib (Geddy Lee) Quotes
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
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I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.
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Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education of a child.
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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
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I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
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Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.
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I love to write. It's my first love.
