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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When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
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I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.
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I think the one film that I could watch over and over and over again - and I have - is 'Man on Fire.'
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For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
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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.
