Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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One of the things you don't usually mess with is happy.
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I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.
