Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.
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Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
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The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
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Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.
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The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.
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The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can't take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they're a complete psycho - 'Great, I've just wasted all this time on you!'
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Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.
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Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.
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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
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I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.
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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
