Martin Luther Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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I choose to express myself.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that's not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
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Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.
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I'm not really in Louis CK's circle. It'd probably be harder if we were really close and I went off on him.
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Since the law is good, the will, which is hostile to it, cannot be good.
