Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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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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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I'm around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.
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I hate profile photos.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can’t make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
