Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Marian Wright Edelman
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
Dana Perino
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes
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Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
Isaac Asimov
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford
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The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.
Elfriede Jelinek
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Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.
Paul Auster
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It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
Jean Ingelow
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Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Marian Wright Edelman