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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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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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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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
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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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The Saft America plant, a giant 235,000-square-foot mass of concrete, is a modern marvel: its roof covered in row upon row of solar panels, embodying the renewable future that the batteries manufactured within are meant to sustain.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie.
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Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.
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I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.
