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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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Ann Curry: You know the American people are suffering watching -Mrs. Bush: Believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm's way.
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Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
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I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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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.
