Geoffrey Canada Quotes
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Uruguayans are competitive, and we always want to win. Even though we try to hide it, it is impossible.
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I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
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I'm really not a partisan political person. I remember when I was in Washington they kept trying to get me to say whether I was a Republican or a Democrat. I just said, my politics are children. That's all I know anything about.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
