Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
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The clock of doom had struck as fated;the poet, without a sound,let fall his pistol on the ground.
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Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten.
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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
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There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I've always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.
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To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.
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We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.
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There's a difference between criticism and hatred.
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Climate change is very real.
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I always kind of wanted to be on 'CSI.' I'm kind of addicted to that show right now. I've never gotten to die in something, and I know that's a little gruesome, but I just think it would be really fun - I'd make it as dramatic as possible.
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Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.
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I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives.
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I don't like to be pigeon-holed.
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Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.
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Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it’s OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.
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Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. People whose diets lack (fats and proteins) or who have intestinal diarrheal diseases - common in developing countries - cannot obtain vitamin A from golden rice.
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Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
