Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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Love and help all the children, all the days of your existence. They need us.
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I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
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I'm not afraid to use Christ as an icon.
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It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
