Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Marian Wright Edelman

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I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

Jimmy Smits

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I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

John C. McGinley

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America's a gangbanger country. We got our gang, and everything else is irrelevant.

Michael Che

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I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

John Wayne

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I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

Simon Cowell

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I always believe that Kar-Wai has a complete script: he just doesn't show it to us. He wants us to experience and explore the character. He gives you a lot of space, and you know every time will be a very long journey. You just live in the character, and that's very different from other directors.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

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Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Ruben Hinojosa

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A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

Mike Huckabee

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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Johnny Depp

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Celebrities say the darnedest things.

Bridgette Wilson

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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Arthur Helps

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