Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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I want to thank the fans for supporting me.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the admission of new partners, take place.
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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
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We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.
