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.
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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.
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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.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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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.
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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.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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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.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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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.
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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!'
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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.
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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.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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If that took place, we understand the penalties. We understand somebody being taken out of the game. Sean is so valuable to us. I had a long talk with him afterward, and he understands that. He's all football. He wants to play. He's one of our leaders. He's had an outstanding year. He's very valuable to us. We can't afford to lose somebody like that.
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I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.
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I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.
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As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
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Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.
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When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
