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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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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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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
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On each national day of inauguration since 1789, the people have renewed their sense of dedication to the United States.
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We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren't serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
