Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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The idea that humanity is divided into these separate and distinct and disparate groups with clear boundaries has been disproven by science a long time ago, decades ago. Humanity really is more of a continuum, and that people belong on the same continuum and there are no clear breaks between these so-called races.
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They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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You have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media.
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Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
