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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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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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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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
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Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime.
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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.
