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 would love to have twins - a girl and a boy - but who knows if that would happen. It would be my ideal situation. Wham, bam, be done with it.
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I'm not trying to turn you into a bourgeois, Naomi. If the bed is too luxurious, we can do it on the floor.
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The ALS ice bucket challenge was really the most brilliant publicity stunt of 2014, and it has brought worldwide awareness for a barely-known disease.
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That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
