Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

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• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Love
  • You
  • Learn

• I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Back

• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Think

• Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Today
  • Like
  • Variety

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Got

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Away
  • Seem
  • Resolutions

• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Actor
  • Role

• I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Music
  • Friends
  • English

• Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Respect
  • Boundaries
  • Global

• One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Many
  • Other
  • Edison

• Why young men from the country become firefighters is hard to explain to people who are not from the country. For most of us, it's not about the rush, which fades with time, or the paycheck. We could earn more working for the railroad or a car dealership. I figure it's about the land.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

  

  Gedde Watanabe

• The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Friend
  • Hand

• There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Career
  • Artist
  • Audience

• Why can't there be an acknowledgment that, in some instances, women remove themselves from the workforce for a long time, and when they come back, of course they're not going to get exactly equal pay?

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Women
  • Real
  • Role