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Throughout Yorkshire's history, the committee had not been known for its visionary approach. They just assumed that because Yorkshire had been fantastic in the past, and the county was full of kids wanting to play cricket, everything would be okay.

~Geoffrey Boycott

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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Because Believe Better Circumstances Community Faith Folks Get History Hope Hopelessness Lose Norm Over People Proven Things Understand Where Whole Will Years You

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I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

~Geoffrey Canada

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At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Almost Anything Because Consensus Convincing Difficult Early Everybody Hard Impossible Just Manage Massachusetts Once Particular School Sort Sounds Thing Through Very Way Where Which Wonderful Worked

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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

Topics: Around Because Been Before Boston College Education Graduate Graduate School Graduated Harvard Inner-City Interesting Job Kids Left Me Never Poor Really School Teaching Then Took White Whites

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Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

~Geoffrey Fisher

Topics: About Because Countless Dare Enemies Freedom Know Limits Loudly Made People Picked Press Say Some Song Speak Themselves Thing Up Who Will

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I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

~Geoffrey Rush

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You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

~Geoffrey Rush

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I live in Australia, and I am Australian, and because I grew up in an era where we didn't have a film industry, and now we do, it's just really exciting for me to be able to say that I work in my own culture in a medium that I find fascinating.

~Geoffrey Rush

Topics: Able Am Australia Australian Because Culture Era Exciting Fascinating Film Film Industry Find Grew Industry Just Live Me Medium My Own Now Own Really Say Up Where Work I Am

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The hero of the 'Peanuts' is Charlie Brown. I play the dog that sleeps on the top of his dog box who's a philosopher. I'm drawn to that. So I'm drawn to Barbossa as I'm drawn to Einstein, because they are outsiders, and I suppose, as a character actor, that's the turf that you're locked into, in a way.

~Geoffrey Rush

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