Alex Lifeson Quotes
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.
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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
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At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.
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Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
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For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you’re a sorry state of affairs.
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The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.
