Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
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If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
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The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'
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I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
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I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it. I believe Paul's got everything he ever had, but I lost a lot of mine.
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I speak 'with absolute certainty' only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any 'authority' let alone 'divine revelation'!
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We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?
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I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.
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We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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In today’s world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.
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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
