Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
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I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
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Nutrition is just as important as working out.
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One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
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As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.
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But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
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To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
