Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman

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What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

Jim Valvano

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Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That's when you know the most, you've seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Jerry Seinfeld

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If a new company is formed, it hires people and creates jobs in its community. As it grows, people's opportunities multiply and wages rise. Inequality diminishes as more people get pulled into good jobs.

Andrew Yang

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I go to a lot of self-help groups in the day, and then I can sleep pretty well at night.

Andy Biersack

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My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.

Tom Watson

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Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.

Roger Ailes

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Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result.

Jean Chatzky

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We all got older, and we'd tell our children things like, 'Mommy used to be in a famous rock band,' but they didn't believe us. Part of the reason for our reunion was to show our children what we did to make the lives they have possible.

Dolores O'Riordan

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Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.

Chelsea Handler

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I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

Claudia Schiffer

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I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

Bruce Sutter

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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Plautus

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