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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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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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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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.
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We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.
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If I don't get laid, I'll sure die trying.
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
