Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
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There's very notable dynamics in all of the collaborations I've done. It's hard to say if one is more important than the other, but if I had to think of all situations and point to one band that I enjoyed most it would be when I was eight years old. I had a band with my little sister and the kid across the street. We sat around all day playing music and it was bliss. I didn't have any expectations or do it for anyone or worry about selling an album. That was really my favorite band. We were called Hot Chocolate.
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I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on videotape, watched them and was instantly into it. During the first episode, I was like, 'Eh.' By the time I got to the second one, I couldn't watch them fast enough. I got on the phone that night, called Time Warner cable and ordered HBO right then.
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I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
