Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.
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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
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Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
