Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
Quotes to Explore
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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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.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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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.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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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.
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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.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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I think the idea of art kills creativity.
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All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.
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For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
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If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.
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There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
