Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
