Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.
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One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.
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I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.
