Alex Lifeson Quotes
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Artists are like everybody else.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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That was the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
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In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.
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I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
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There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.
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I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.
