Martin Luther Quotes
God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
Quotes to Explore
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I am such a political person.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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The language of ideas creates a different universe: a universe which has multiplied the monkey's vocabulary of forty words to the million words in the English dictionary.
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My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
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'It’s a nitwit idea.''Yes, sir.''Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.'
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«And the European one?»
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Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found. Extreme complication is contrary to art. Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
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We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
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This argument too shows that in truth we know nothing about anything, but every man shares the generally prevailing opinion.
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I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.
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When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.
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God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
