Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Winston Peters: 'the only member of Parliament named after a concrete block, and I can understand that.' 1
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There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.
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Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
