Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

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• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Bad
  • Mom

• Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Space
  • Comfort

• We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Free
  • Army
  • Slave

• I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

  

  Karl Rove
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  • Anger

• I certainly support civil unions.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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  • Certainly
  • Unions

• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.

  

  Ralph Regula
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  • Drug
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• Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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  • Necessarily

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
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  • Music
  • Working

• I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Science
  • Universe
  • Physics

• I'm going to die very soon. Before my 21st birthday. I won't live to be 21. I'm never going to be old. I don't ever want to be ugly and old. I'm an old lady now anyhow. I'm 80. There's nothing left. I've already lived a whole lifetime. I'm going out. In a blaze of glory.

  

  Nancy Spungen
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  • Lived

• Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know?

  

  Irvine Welsh

• At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Opinion

• Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Sweet
  • Spring
  • Rose

• Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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