Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
Quotes to Explore
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You cannot do only one thing.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I think I can change the game.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
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I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
