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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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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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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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
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This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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I love putting people to work of color.
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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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.
