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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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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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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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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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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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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There's something so free about being a fan and being enthusiastic about stuff - you attract all the other people who are also loving and enthusiastic when you're sending out signals of love. When you start to communicate cynicism and hatred, it leads you down a completely different path.
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My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.
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Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
