Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
Quotes to Explore
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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My worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then.
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
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Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.
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School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
