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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.
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People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
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I exercise every day. It's what makes me happy.
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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
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It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
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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.
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I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets.
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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.
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I don't say anything unintentionally.
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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.
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Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.
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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.
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Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.
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I hate optimism out of insensitivity.
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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
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Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.
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I am frequently attacked.
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... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
