Geoffrey Canada Quotes
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I believe in giving back.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
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NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence.
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.
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I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.
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The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.
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Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge.
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I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
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It's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
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Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
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Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.
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I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
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Teachers need to be paid like professionals.
