Geoffrey Canada Quotes
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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I don't have goals in life.
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I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
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No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'
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I'd rather be in my house crying than be sitting with someone talking about shoes, y'know?
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As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
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Every time you look up, they're scoring a run. They do all the little things. After a series with them, you're all worn out from watching those rabbits run around the bases.
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One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'
