Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
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Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.
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I don't really like wearing bikinis. And if you don't either, don't make yourself.
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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
