Alex Lifeson Quotes
Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.
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I will keep working hard!
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.
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The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.
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I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.
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Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.
