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.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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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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The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.
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Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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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.
