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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I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
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Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
