Geoffrey Canada Quotes
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.
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A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.
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I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.
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I would say we had two goals when doing this CD. The first goal is to introduce people who have never seen the show before to the best comics that are on the show. And goal number two is to introduce people that they never heard of before and give you a bit more flavor of what the show is actually like. And those goals are very much in line with the philosophy of the show from the very beginning. It's the very best people who are out there.
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It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.
