Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.
Quotes to Explore
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.
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If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
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What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
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All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
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I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'm the assistant - you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I'm trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.
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Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.
