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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From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
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I don't need to be liked.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
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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.
