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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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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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 know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.
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What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.
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Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
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Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.
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The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
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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.
