Alex Lifeson Quotes
We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
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School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.
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I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.
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We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.
