Martin Luther Quotes
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
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As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
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Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.
