Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.Marian Wright Edelman
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
Laura San Giacomo -
I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
Katarina Witt -
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle -
Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
Tammy Duckworth
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
Ted Yoho -
When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
Tanya Tucker -
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
Sam Smith -
I love creative people.
Zac Posen -
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
Larry Fitzgerald -
The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
Sam Elliott -
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
Rachel Roy -
Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
Manish Dayal -
Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
Dan Marino
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.
Zoe Kravitz -
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
Lisa Unger -
I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
Joe Nichols -
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.
Marian Wright Edelman