Geoffrey Canada Quotes

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

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• In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

  

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• I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

  

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• I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

  

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• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

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• I've never worried about life's big questions.

  

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• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

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• Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

  

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• To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

  

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• I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.

  

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• I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

  

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• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

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• I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.

  

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• My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

  

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• I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

  

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• Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

  

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• As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!

  

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• I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.

  

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• I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

  

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• Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids