Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Since it is the actions of investors whose buy and sell decisions move prices up and down, any deviation from a random walk has ultimately to be traced back to the behavior of investors.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
