Geoffrey Canada Quotes

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

Geoffrey Canada

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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Kennedy

FreedomMenPoliticsLawHandsOwn

This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.

Jeff Duncan

ChangeWrongClimate ChangeHappening

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

John Simon

GoOnlyLikeDownhillSprings

My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them.

Mia Sara

StylePennyAlwaysPenniesPearls

Back in England, a girl with thick black hair, dusky skin and big brown eyes will turn heads. It is vice versa in India.

Amy Jackson

GirlEyesHairBlackBackSkin

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Steven Pinker

WordsBetterWishKnowSaidWant

I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.

Trudie Styler

NightBelieveTreesYouSayYour

'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.

Robert Fulghum

QuestionsAnswerWordOurUltimate

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Michelangelo

YouDivineEvenDisdainMale

With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

Lucy Walker

AgeThinkDataFilmmakingNewMean

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Lois McMaster Bujold

DreamsAnxietyHalfSeemsLike

I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me.

Jay Ryan

ChildParentsMeKnowJustVery

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