Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

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• Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

  

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• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

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• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

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• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  

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• When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

  

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• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

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• The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

  

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• You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.

  

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• I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.

  

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• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

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• Good material is good material.

  

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• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

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• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

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• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

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• A lot of new stepparents fall into the trap of letting children disobey household expectations in order to gain favor with them.

  

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• Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage.

  

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• By not first explaining the bones, anatomists delay the inexperienced student and, because of the difficulty of the subject, deter him from a very worthy examination of the works of God.

  

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• Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Masters