Malcolm X Quotes

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Die
  • Famous
  • Before

• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Important
  • You
  • Questions

• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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  • Wish
  • Forget

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
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  • Country

• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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  • Single

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
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  • Freedom
  • Respect

• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
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  • Chance
  • Finding

• You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Mind
  • Society
  • You

• Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • You
  • Judge

• You put high heels on and you change.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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  • You
  • Change

• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
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  • Know
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• Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

  

  Rachael Ray
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• I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Try
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• There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Women
  • You
  • Living

• You cannot take all the chances you get.

  

  Marat Safin
  • You
  • Take
  • Chances

• The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
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  • Freedom
  • Summer

• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

  

  Rumi
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  • Polished
  • Irritated

• I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.

  

  Maceo Parker
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  • World
  • Music

• Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
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• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
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  • Freedom
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