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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I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big '70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang 'Da Do Ron Ron' to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.
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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
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I don't give people time to start talking junk, because I say something to them first.
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.
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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.
