Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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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.
Ralph Fiennes
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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.
Malcolm Gladwell
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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.
Tao Okamoto
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Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
Gary Bettman
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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.'
Haile Selassie
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
Florynce Kennedy
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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.
Kate Thompson
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Nanette Lepore
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
Laura Prepon
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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.
Immanuel Kant
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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.'
Edmund White
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
Vikas Swarup
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
Aaron Sorkin
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
Zoe Kravitz
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In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.
Jamie Johnson
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I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereigns with a little of their help, as much gold can be supplied as they will need, indeed as much of spices, of cotton, of mastic gum (which is only found in Chios), also as much of aloes wood, and as many slaves for the navy, as their Majesties will wish to demand.
Christopher Columbus
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We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
