Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I try to do my best.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.
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It is natural for us to seek a Standard of Taste; a rule, by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled; at least, a decision, afforded, confirming one sentiment, and condemning another.
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.
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Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.
