Martin Luther Quotes
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
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I care about my quality of life and money.
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It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
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Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
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I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.
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Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
