Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
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There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
