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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The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
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I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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Check my records: you'll find I've never caused a bad injury to a player.
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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.
