Alex Lifeson Quotes
The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
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As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
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The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.
