Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
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And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.
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Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
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There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.
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When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
