Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.
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It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of 'What if you screw up once?' or 'What if the market changes?'
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I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.
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I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.
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There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.
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Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.
