Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
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I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.
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When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.
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My business is circumference.
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Lawlessness doesn’t mean there’s no law, you know, it just means that there are a lot of different laws slugging it out in the streets, and none of them have come out on top yet.
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This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
