Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
Zach Anner -
I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
Adam Jones -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom -
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
Zig Ziglar -
When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
Jackee Harry -
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
Wendy Kopp
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
Quentin Blake -
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle -
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius -
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
Naveen Jain
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T -
I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
Vanilla Ice -
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
Edmund Hillary -
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
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Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
Anna Akhmatova -
I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
Nate Berkus -
The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
Fred Hoyle -
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
Ted Ligety -
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.