Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
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I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.
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Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
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I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
