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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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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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.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

  

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

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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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.

  

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

  

  Patricia Velasquez
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• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
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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.

  

  Kat Graham
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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.

  

  M. J. Rose
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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.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Over

• 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.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
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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.

  

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

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
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• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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  • Know
  • Everyone

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

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Family
  • Community
  • Connections

• In the end we went to the railroad station, as he suddenly decided he would have to go. We were just in time to see the last lights of the train disappearing. Once again Hoffmann left the house too late, and so I couldn't even say good-by to him. Perhaps I am taking too dark a view, I hope I am, but he is not coming again for another two weeks.

  

  Eva Braun
  • Decided
  • I Hope
  • Lights

• As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • May
  • Popular

• You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

  

  Halsey
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Cold

• A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Proportion

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

  

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