Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Marian Wright Edelman

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ChildrenHealthAmericaLongNew

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

Jimmy Carter

PeopleDoingYouI CanGoSerious

Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.

Michael Hastings

WorkFamilyNatureServiceDeep

I've been playing football forever, and I've been making plays forever.

Torrey Smith

FootballForeverPlayingBeenMaking

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

Tom Tancredo

DietHypocrisyHealthyLiving

I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.

Mary Roach

FunnyI AmPersonWayMeanWit

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

Mike Farrell

GoodThinkMediaHollywoodForce

I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.

Christine Tsai

AlwaysWorkingInterestedFascinated

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

Chuck Klosterman

CulturePeopleFarmCountryWayUp

I always loved as a kid reading 'Spider-Man,' and the 'Fantastic Four' would show up... it was all about that larger universe.

Peyton Reed

ReadingLovedUniverseKidAlways

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

Timothy Noah

CapTaxesPayrollLittleOnlyMake

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'

Leonard Slatkin

PeopleStartSayingThinkWillWell

People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise.

Julian Treasure

SilenceMistakePeopleMissionBad

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