Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

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• People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Relationship
  • Best
  • Healthy

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Things

• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • High
  • Try

• It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Parents
  • Learn
  • Grades

• I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Identity
  • See

• I've never abandoned the novel.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Never
  • Novel
  • Abandoned

• I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • America
  • Think
  • Looking

• There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • Men
  • Fly

• You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Up
  • Brain

• I feel like when I'm on stage and when I'm performing - or I think when anybody is developing their talents and sharing it - I think you glow.

  

  Lindsey Stirling

• For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Dania Ramirez
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Stories

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • War
  • High
  • Poverty

• The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Poverty
  • Direct
  • Timr