Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I need instant gratification.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
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A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.
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If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or the leisure time that comes with the pursuit of poetry. Instead, this is ceremony. This is a highly charged way to create a sacred space that isn't necessarily about God, but is about human experience at its most profound levels - whether that's love or grief, separation, or homeland. All are altered states.
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In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
