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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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?
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Now kiss, and think that there are really those, My own high-bosom'd beauty, who increase Vain gold, vain lore, and yet might choose our way! Through many years they toil; then on a day They die not, - for their life was death, - but cease; And round their narrow lips the mould falls close.
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
