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Related As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it mea... MARIAN ANDERSON When you put somebody down, you have to be down there to hold him down. You could soar high otherwis... UNKNOWN As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people... C.S. LEWIS There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking ... C.S. LEWIS Fiber is important, as long as you keep it down. DALE DUTT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY As soon as you meet him, you understand he is sincere, he is real and he is passionate. He's willing... BARBARA COE No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to... DR DRE No matter how enlightened you think you are, as long as there ain't nobody to recognize it, you're s... EPHDAN Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE We just have to get it done no matter how long we're out there. Big plays can kill you, man. That's ... AL WILSON Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any nega... JOSH MCDOWELL See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ... JODI PICOULT Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as ... EMINEM It's very hard, so I try and make it as engaging as it can be. But you have to face the fact that, n... ERIC CLAPTON As long as there is life, there is a potential; and as long as there is a potential, there will be a... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hol... SAUL BELLOW Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you h... SAUL BELLOW The stronger a person's "I" is, the smaller his capacity to become one with anybody. The "I" is a wa... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d... C.S. LEWIS Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's... REBECCA ROMIJN Statistically, you would think that sometime we need to win a game down there. It's bound to happen ... KATIE HASHEIDER See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world,... JODI PICOULT It doesn't matter who gets the shots in the fourth. Trenton was making plays. We were milking him. H... WALLY SZCZERBIAK As long as it keeps trending down we'll hold where we are or keep coming down when we get enough of ... DON BOWERS It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN It's not a perfect situation. The turf is hard. So, we try to keep pounding down to a minimum as far... DOUG SCHREIBER Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept w... ERIN MORGENSTERN Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you h... CHARLIE HUNNAM He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hai... MARYA HORNBACHER Safe? What can be classified as safe? Everything we do in life has a risk. Just getting out of bed e... BRANDY NACOLE Ivanov: A naive man is a fool. But you women are clever enough to be naive so that it comes out in y... ANTON CHEKHOV Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward ... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate ... BERNARD SAHLINS Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in t... DON DELILLO No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what... LEMONY SNICKET no matter if you try to be funny, there will always be someone to kick you down. so not fair MIKE GRIST No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back. SHERYL SWOOPES You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script. CURTIS HANSON If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree... SUSAN GEORGE If you keep thinking about it, it's just going to keep bringing you down and you're not going to be ... DAVE RELLA Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the ... 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CAMERON STEWART And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way ... ALYSSA MILANO Heck, it's just as insulting as when someone like you interviews me and asks a question like that, n... CLAY AIKEN It's crazy. It makes no sense, as far as the number of people protected. No matter how you slice it,... ANTHONY WEINER It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those... FELIX ALEXANDER If a lion invites you to dinner, turn down the offer, no matter how hungry you are. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Positivity is Like airbubbles at the bottom of the Ocean. No matter how hard you try to hold them do... KēVENS I was really disappointed we went up some time from the district. We were definitely tapered for dis... TYLER JOHNSON My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do... SARAH DESSEN You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what... AHMAD JAMAL I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e... BARBARA EHRENREICH At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it... SUSANNE BIER There's no way you can have a hearing like this without the person who went down to Arizona as part ... PAUL WEISSMANN What's important is that I know how much you worry about shit. And what's also important is that I k... PATRICK NESS It's still an event that you need to be aware of. There's still a lot of activity in these names. Ac... JOHN DAVI You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live ... AHMAD JAMAL God always drops love like rainfall and if you walk in it, you shall always be refreshed by it in so... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen t... CHRIS COLFER If tough times seem to keep you down you might as well rest in peace." Will Robins WILL ROBINSON Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for re... ENOCK MAREGESI if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it ... ELLEN GLASGOW No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when ... KONOSUKE MATSUSHITA So what if People don't care how much knowledge you have,don't stop and keep getting it as there is ... LALIT BHOJWANI While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acce... JOHN RAMPTON We like people to stay and try our beds as long as they can. How are you going to find a comfortable... JANET MORAN No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it h... LILLY SINGH As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to de... PAUL SIMON As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world,... DAVID MACKENZIE To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagine... JONATHAN LEVINE Love is the best thing there ever is. There’s no words to describe it. You wouldn’t be able to f... UZAIR ALAM Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job... BILLY BEANE As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for... LADAINIAN TOMLINSON O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itsel... STEPHEN LEACOCK No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a... TAYLOR JENKINS REID You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion a... KEITH ELLISON
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it mea... MARIAN ANDERSON Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fi... MARIAN ANDERSON Prayer begins where human capacity ends. MARIAN ANDERSON Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, b... MARIAN ANDERSON You have two bites at the local apple before you have to go to court, MARIAN ANDERSON None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the ... MARIAN ANDERSON Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair ... MARIAN ANDERSON Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it... MARIAN ANDERSON Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. 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MARIAN KEYES Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still ... MARIAN KEYES If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you MARIAN KEYES As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it. MARIAN KEYES No one knows how strong they are until they have to be. MARIAN KEYES If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants... MARIAN BURROS I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with y... MARIAN KEYES Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the f... MARIAN KEYES I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subcons... MARIAN KEYES The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covere... 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MARIAN KEYES I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never... MARIAN KEYES An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Mak... MARIAN SELDES I don’t want to be dead. I’m curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right? MARIAN KEYES mind her when I’m away?’ I stayed overnight in MARIAN KEYES I click to buy it and I’m furious to discover that it’s not available in Ireland and they won’... MARIAN KEYES This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some... MARIAN KEYES Worse, neither of us has liked any of the other’s Facebook posts, the modern equivalent of pistols... MARIAN KEYES Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I’m forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even... MARIAN KEYES why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which w... 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MARIAN PEARCY It would be hoped that the minutes are an accurate reflection of the actions taken by the governing ... MARIAN PEARCY Only if we have an educated electorate can we have a truly democratic form of government. We need to... MARIAN PEARCY Everybody seems to think Madeleine sounds like Billie Holiday, ... I think that's OK, but it's reall... MARIAN MCPARTLAND that evening with 30-year-old Jason Moran. It turns out they've played together before -- on McPartl... MARIAN MCPARTLAND Madeleine called me from Europe recently and was worried about whether we'd have rehearsal time befo... MARIAN MCPARTLAND This is a gamble. We're going to see what happens. MARIAN SCHNEIDER The area is rich in local history. MARIAN SCHNEIDER Every year I'd write a letter. I'm not easily dissuaded. MARIAN SCHNEIDER When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may... MARIAN KEYES No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last. MARIAN KEYES But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the ... MARIAN KEYES Like I always say, there's a time and a place for spontaneity. MARIAN KEYES In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on... MARIAN KEYES The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move th... MARIAN KEYES I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn'... MARIAN KEYES In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on... MARIAN KEYES Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it. MARIAN KEYES I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts abou... MARIAN KEYES It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong on... MARIAN KEYES No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't mana... MARIAN KEYES Temporary Insanity had come a-knocking and I had shouted "Come on in the door is open." Luckily, Rea... MARIAN KEYES when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may n... MARIAN KEYES By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities. MARIAN DEEGAN Blessed are those to whom Easter is not a hunt...but a find;
not a greeting...but a proclamation;
no... ANDERSON When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make e... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief t... MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN No person has the right to rain on your dreams. MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily diffe... MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in yo... MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonv... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and pres... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kin... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than ... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a b... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfini... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even th... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily diffe... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fe... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forge... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other peopl... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gon... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are go... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. Wha... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You ... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who wer... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You just think of them playing baseball and basketball, anything fun, not waiting for someone to com... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceive... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN This historic investment in children's health is a major victory for America's children and working ... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of ... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN No person has the right to rain on your dreams. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The persistent and growing high level of child poverty reflects conscious and misguided choices, ...... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN