Charles T. Canady Quotes
The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.
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When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.
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Chicago is highly segregated, a fact that both causes and compounds the problems we face in bringing an end to violence.
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It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
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The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
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The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public business is done. But that does not justify extravagant expenditures. Courthouses should be dignified, durable, and functional. They should not be grandiose, monumental, and luxurious.
