Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

Marian Wright Edelman

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• I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

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• I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
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• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  

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• My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

  

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

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• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

  

  Ian Botham
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• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
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• I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

  

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  • Years
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• Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Group

• Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
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• They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Door
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• 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

  

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• You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

  

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• Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  

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• We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

  

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• If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

  

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• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

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• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  

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• We're looking to ways to build in the responsibility we have on climate change and the way that we approach, potentially, climate change refuges in the future amongst our neighbors.

  

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• Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

  

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• I tell myself that anyone who says he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Finished means complete, perfect, and I toil away without making any progress, searching, fumbling around, without achieving anything much.

  

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• I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Child
  • Drinking
  • Drink