Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.
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I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.
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We ended up with an effective sentence of 5 1/2 years, so that's pretty close. I would be hard pressed to be upset over a question of six months.
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I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
