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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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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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
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I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me.
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No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.
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I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
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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.
