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 busted my butt all my life building companies.
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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 think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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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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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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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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All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.
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I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
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I love to write. It's my first love.
