Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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'Pump Up the Volume' was a film and character that I really responded to. That was a movie about a guy trying to take down the establishment using a ham radio. I feel 'Mr. Robot' has a similar value. This show is about taking down a global empire. I was an anarchist then. I'm getting to be an anarchist again.
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When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.
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I also got to know Roger Corman a bit while we were on location in Mendocino. And then, subsequently, a woman who also worked on The Dunwich Horror named Tamara Asseyev and I teamed up and co-produced a picture that I wrote and directed, called Sweet Kill, that Roger Corman's then-new company distributed.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.
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Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
