Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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There's nothing at the center of what we do.
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For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.
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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
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An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
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I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
