Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.Marian Wright Edelman
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
Jackie Evancho -
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma -
The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
Adam Kluger -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman -
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
Dana Perino -
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon -
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
Webb Simpson -
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
Gary Bauer -
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
Hamilton Jordan -
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
Edgar Meyer -
I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
Edgar Winter -
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee -
I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.
Jenny Eclair -
I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.
J Balvin -
Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.
Jonathan Groff -
If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months, at the start of the film, I was never able to do it.
Colin Farrell -
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
Marian Wright Edelman