Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.
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The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.
