Geddy Lee Weinrib (Geddy Lee) Quotes
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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I don't have many friends.
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The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.
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I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.
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I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.
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Just take one small victory at a time.
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I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
