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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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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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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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.
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A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.
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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
