Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.
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When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid -- me -- the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been a cookbook.
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It's all about racing on the track.
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Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed.
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The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.
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You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
