Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.
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The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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Every soak-the-rich tax must become in time a soak-the-poor tax.
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I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.