Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
Najib Mikati -
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
Patrick deWitt -
I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers -
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia -
The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
Adam Hamilton -
When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
J. Tillman
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie -
I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
Famke Janssen -
My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
Kat Dennings -
Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.
KaDee Strickland -
My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
Halston Sage -
On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
Saint Patrick
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A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
Zac Brown Band -
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
Adam Grant -
I'm the nap champion.
Leslie Odom, Jr. -
I've always been very tied to language.
Barbara Kruger -
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
Ira Glass -
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.
Martin Luther King, Jr.