Malcolm X Quotes
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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The unspoken word never does harm.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.
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Learn today, lead tomorrow!
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When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.
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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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Q: Do you feel a need to be distinctive and mass-produced? Q: Are you in the groove? That is, are you moving in ever-diminishing circles? Q: How often do you change your mind, your politics, your clothes? (p. 121-125)
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How can anyone be against love?
