Charles T. Canady Quotes
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My hunger is always there.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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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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So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
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I don't believe in college admission or any other venue that we should pick one race or sex over another in college admissions. My philosophy and reaction is that I would not support a program that by race or status alone elevates someone over another in a competition of sorts.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Most people live their life around what other people do.
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
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I love being a judge, and I anticipate being a judge for the rest of my life.
