Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.
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One might as well try to charge through a wall.
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My mom is a beautiful, amazing woman. We didn't have a ton of money growing up, and even, at one point, we were living on food stamps. But my mom still managed to make sure we ate healthy and were always fed nutritious meals!
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Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.
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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
