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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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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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 a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.
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None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.
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Film music has a great history of composers and performers.
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Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.
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I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.
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I love to write. It's my first love.
