Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Barack Obama
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Zack Snyder
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I've directed independent film.
Vin Diesel
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
C. Everett Koop
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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.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Jack Kingston
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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.
Patrick Warburton
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While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.
Naveen Jain
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
Imogen Heap
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
Oliver Tambo
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
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When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors Robby Krieger. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
Tariq Ramadan
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I have eight brothers and sisters, so I'd like to have a few children.
Alek Wek
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We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.
Martin Seligman
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Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.
Marian Wright Edelman
