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 don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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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 don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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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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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
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I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
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I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.
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'Where do you get those superior airs of yours?' 'I've managed to survive, you see, all those nights when I wondered: am I going to kill myself at dawn?'
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
