Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
-
I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
-
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
-
Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
-
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
-
Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
-
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
-
It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
-
You have good days and bad days.
-
I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
-
I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
-
The good thing is that I'm always honest.
-
Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.
-
I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
-
I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
-
We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.
-
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
-
My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'
-
I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.
-
My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.
-
You can do amazing things when people love you.
-
I like to play strong women because there is so much emotion to bring to these roles.
-
You're as good as anybody.
