Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
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Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
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The most doubtful reasoning appears to us clear and conclusive, when we can, in any way, twist it to an accordance with what we desire.
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I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.
