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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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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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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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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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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Not every Muslim is out to get us.
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If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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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.
