Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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I know one business, and that's how to make software.
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They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.
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Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know I met her walkin' down a uptown street She's so fine you know I wished she was mine I get shook up every time we meet
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I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.
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I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
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My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.
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When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.
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I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.
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The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.
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I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.
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A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.
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When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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In the old movies, yes, there always was the happy ending and order was restored. As it is in Shakespeare's plays. It's no disgrace to, in the end, restore order. And punish the wicked and, in some way, reward the righteous.
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We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
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The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.
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Macrame is effortless.
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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.
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Don't let anybody take your manhood.
