Alex Lifeson Quotes
Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
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Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species of sea turtles.
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It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.
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Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.
