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Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Marian Wright Edelman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1939

Topics

Dreams Rain Your Dreams Person Right

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

Music Today Soul Listen Never First

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Jennifer Carpenter

Religion Book Bible Born Run Race

Madonna was very cool. I thought she was really nice, really present, and she worked really, really hard... She didn't necessarily know our real names in real-life, because why should she? Who cares? Some of the cast were really offended, like, 'She doesn't even know my name!' I'm like, 'Who cares? Madonna's doing our show. It doesn't matter.'

Cool Thought Present Name Doing Why

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

John Henry Newman

Find Done Nothing Fault Well Would

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

Music Go Whatever Streets Going

Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I feel most comfortable. If anything, it's just because I'm, like, very scatty and not very good at putting stuff together.

Suki Waterhouse

Good Together Effort Looking Enjoy

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Service Fire Police Medical Radio

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

Goals Action Want Movies Break Film

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

Love Sweet Horror Did Spot Films

My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.

Writing Reading Thinking Editing

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Mother Like Other Blow Passed

We are training as hard as all athletes in other countries.

Training Hard Other Athletes

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