Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.
Quotes to Explore
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.
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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.
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Speech to the Budget Commission of the Prussian Diet (30 September 1862), published in Fürst Bismarck als Redner, Vol. 2 (after 1881), edited by Wilhelm Böhm, p. 12); after some objections to his initial speech Bismarck returned to the podium and declared:
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I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.
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A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.
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The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.
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Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.
