Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Question

• I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • School
  • Myself
  • Intelligent

• I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Believe
  • American

• I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Why
  • Job
  • Attention

• The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Step
  • Test

• I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.

  

  Madison McKinley
  • Always
  • Things
  • Mystery

• People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People

• I exercise every day. It's what makes me happy.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Happy
  • Exercise

• Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Good

• It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Great
  • Pretty

• The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • Black
  • Struggle

• I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets.

  

  Alice McDermott

• I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Music
  • Waiting

• I don't say anything unintentionally.

  

  Dominic Monaghan

• To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

  

  David Slade
  • Work
  • Planning

• Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

  

  August Wilson
  • Black
  • City

• After 9/11 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now with 9/11 being as far removed as it is, the war being up one day and down the next, it becomes increasingly difficult to get people to go.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Up
  • War

• Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • Character
  • Fun

• I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Moment
  • Generation
  • Neglect

• Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Challenge

• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Home
  • Rich

• Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

  

  Chip R. Bell
  • Advice
  • Games
  • Causes

• I‘m a free woman and always will be, i send my sisterly regards to all the victims of abject acts who would have felt attacked by this column inLe Monde, and it is to them, and them only, that I offer my apologies.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Free
  • Victims
  • Regards

• ... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Defend
  • Attacked
  • Common Law