Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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I love dogs because they're so adaptable.
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Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
