Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.Marian Wright Edelman
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
Rand Paul -
I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
Larry Wilmore -
I got no hate in me.
Waris Ahluwalia -
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott -
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley -
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
Daniel Ellsberg
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
Taylor Dayne -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
Zoe Kazan -
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono -
I'm a fast writer.
J. J. Abrams -
I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
T. Harv Eker -
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao Tzu -
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
Samantha Shannon
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The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
Marcus Samuelsson -
I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
Hilary Mantel -
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.
W. Somerset Maugham -
He was always very nice. What I remember more than meeting Connie Mack was meeting Honus Wagner when he was a coach for the Pirates.
Bobby Bragan -
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Marian Wright Edelman