Alex Lifeson Quotes
The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.
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He criticized baseball's racial policies after he stopped playing, especially how blacks were forced to travel. He even criticized some black players for not standing up for their rights.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
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When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.
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The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.
