Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually copyright the term "25/8." You ever hear of the term "25/8?" It's the cousin of "24/7." I have to go "25/8."
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All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.
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Colleagues at work found him talkative and articulate, but occasionally boring, and he lacked the sense to recognise when he had said enough even when other people held newspapers in front of their faces and went on talking as if the most profound interest had been shown.
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Don't be afraid of hard work.
