Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

Marian Wright Edelman

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Music was my passion, and I started out as a singer. It's just natural to me to keep pursuing my music career.

Jessica Jung

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There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

Maxine Waters

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Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'

Rob Reiner

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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Robert Byrd

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I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

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I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Michael Palin

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From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Dick Cheney

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I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

Derrick Jensen

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Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Cher

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Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Christina Romer

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Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

Seth MacFarlane

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