Geoffrey Canada Quotes
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.Geoffrey Canada
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
Nancy Farmer -
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos -
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
Waris Dirie -
I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
Eric Lynn Wright -
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
Jack Schwartz
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
Vanity -
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
It's brutal out on the football field.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
Uzo Aduba
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
Edan Lepucki -
I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
V. E. Schwab -
There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
Maira Kalman -
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
If you never give up, you'll be successful.
Dan O'Brien -
I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
Gabrielle Union
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.
Naomi Judd -
What I've learned is that what most women really want deep down inside is time to get to know you - and your undivided attention. They want it to be about them for a little while.
Lamman Rucker -
Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.
Christian Louboutin -
I have been hit by the Americans and tortured. I have been beaten on every place of my body, and the signs are all over my body.
Saddam Hussein -
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
Geoffrey Canada