Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever.
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We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.
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Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
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I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.
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I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.
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When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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The 'interface' of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism – a formula for blitz and metamorphosis. (p. 161)
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I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.
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Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.
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You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.
