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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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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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.
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During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
