Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.
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We strivin' for perfection.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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It's great not only talking about community service in theory but actually doing it.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.
