Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Village

• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • People
  • Actor
  • Saying

• Muzaffarnagar is 40 kilometers from my village. So I used to see films if I was able to save money and on special occasions like Eid, Diwali.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Money
  • Special
  • Village

• If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Say
  • Prince

• Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Inspired
  • Hamlet
  • Captain

• I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Village

• I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dad

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• With me and Kurt, it was either Bonnie and Clyde, Sid and Nancy, or mommy. That's where it got at the end, but the rest of the time it was equal. The equality was based on Bonnie and Clyde, which is fucking goddamn fun. And Romeo and Juliet. But it was also Hamlet and Hamlet. Not Hamlet and Ophelia. These two fucking Hamlets sitting around.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Rest

• Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.

  

  David Hewson
  • River
  • Hamlet

• Hamlet is a little daunting.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Hamlet

• I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

  

  James Black
  • Family
  • Hamlet

• 'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us.

  

  David Farr
  • Alien
  • Hamlet

• 'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

  

  David Farr
  • Hamlet

• If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

  

  Matt Lucas
  • Hamlet

• I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
  • Done
  • Hamlet

• If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • King
  • Lion
  • Hamlet

• As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Family
  • Past

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

  

  Doug Hoffman
  • People
  • Party
  • Cool

• When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hamlet
  • Village
  • Freedom Ring