Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Should

• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Independent
  • Push

• We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

  

  Tara Strong
  • Music
  • Scripts
  • Begins

• A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Why
  • Me

• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Wonderful
  • Directors

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Growth

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• To change what you get, you must change who you are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • You
  • Change
  • Must

• Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Literature
  • Creation

• 'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.

  

  Joanna Coles

• I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
  • Respect

• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • History
  • Social Change