Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
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I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
