Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.
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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
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I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
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I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.
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When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
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I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
