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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Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
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I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not-being, in point of fact, Jeeves.
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All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team.
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It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
