Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, 'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.'
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If Harry Connick Jr. wants to call me and ask me to join his band, that would be fine with me. I'm happy, but if he calls, I would pick up.
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Men have no idea how much more difficult it is for women in the rock and roll industry, and while we are trying to give birth, breastfeed, all they do is have a good time.
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There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into a shot goes into the aesthetic issues of, 'Is it a good shot or not?'
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Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language. (p. 80)
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For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King’s side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin’s memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.
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I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.
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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
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Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
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She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.
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I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.
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... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.
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Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.
