Geoffrey Canada Quotes
The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.
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Age for me is just a number.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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I feel like a lot of the stuff coming out right now just feels really inauthentic to me. But apparently, people don't seem to see through it. And this makes me sound bitter, but it's just my perspective. I'm not bitter. I just feel like there's a lot of stuff that doesn't feel like it's coming from a place of any sort of integrity. It just doesn't feel like it's coming from the heart, basically. It just feels like it's being produced because people know it's a formula that will work, or it's easily digestible and fun to look at.
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The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.
