Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
Quotes to Explore
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I am healthy and happy.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
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They are truly the sweetest people on earth.
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I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
