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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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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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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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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You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
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Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
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The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.
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I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.
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Teachers need to be paid like professionals.
