Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
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People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and spoke with some French people there, and they were saying: 'I went to English school, but at home it was always French, and that's going to be the way it is for my kids.' It's important for them to keep that language alive.
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
