Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.
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I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.
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O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
