Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
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I'm not a Republican.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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My life is my message.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?
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I think dieting is bad for you.
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There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.
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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
