Charles T. Canady Quotes
My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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As long as I breathe, I attack.
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I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.
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All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
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My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.
