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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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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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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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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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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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.
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There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.
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'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.
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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.
