Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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Choir of Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell: (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
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"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
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Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
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You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.
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You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.
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The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
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The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
