Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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We have seen better days.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
