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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The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
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When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
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When 'I' released, I gave a couple of interviews in which I expressed my interest to play an action heroine.
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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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.
