Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I don't have many friends.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I think that when voters react negatively to trade and investment, they are really expressing their angst about the pace of technological change.
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I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.
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You know what happens in all the big companies and business in the world. If something doesn't work, you have to find a solution.
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In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.
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If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
