Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
Sam Rockwell -
If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
Dana Rohrabacher -
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.
Tavis Smiley -
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde -
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
Madeline Zima -
Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
T. E. Hulme -
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Mahavira -
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
Rabih Alameddine -
We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
Wale -
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright -
The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
Wen Jiabao -
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
Laura Linney -
How can German music not be represented by an article?
Wassily Kandinsky
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Either a beast or a god.
Aristotle -
A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.
Luther Strange -
The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of India, where there's horrendous poverty. The number of girls in many of these places is so low that it has social consequences. You get young men without jobs and without women, and this leads to chaos and political danger. But the south of India is very different.
Barbara Crossette -
You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
Paul Theroux -
Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way.
Hal Elrod -
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
Martin Luther King, Jr.