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 trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
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Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.
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Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
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Over the years I've learned that, to be a good manager, you need to have passion, and you need to have a strong character. Without those things, the job is very, very difficult.
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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.
