Charles T. Canady Quotes
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My hunger is always there.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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I love being a judge, and I anticipate being a judge for the rest of my life.
