Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.Marian Wright Edelman
Quotes to Explore
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
Gary Hamel -
Everybody thinks they deserve something.
Wayne Rogers -
I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
Imran Amed -
Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
Mandy Moore -
It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
Naomi Watts -
I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
Wayne Rooney
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
Zac Brown Band -
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
Walter Hill -
The bad boy: always more fun.
Ian McShane -
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke -
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
Samantha Shannon -
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
A. R. Rahman
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith -
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler -
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
Bebe Rexha -
I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
Quinn Shephard -
My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
Nate Ruess Fun.
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I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
Will Smith -
A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.
Jon Pardi -
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
Riccardo Muti -
You're not going to ask me that and if you did I'd pretend that you didn't because everybody and their mother plus their dog and cat and their goldfish asks me that.
Michael Lee Aday -
There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
Rachel Cusk -
So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.
Marian Wright Edelman