Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.
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Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
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But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
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Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
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I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio.
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I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
