Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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I have had moments where I've felt like, 'I'm going to feel a little guilty if I don't put the baby down for her nap today, but I really need to go to that spin class. And that's good for my health and my mental well-being, so I think the nanny can put her down for her nap, and I'm going to be OK with that.'
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I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.
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Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.
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One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
