Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

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• The want of money is the root of all evil.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Want
  • Evil

• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Play

• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Popular
  • Show

• Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • Tradition
  • Congress

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

  

  Victoria Billings
  • Fine
  • Twins
  • Togetherness

• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Interest

• The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Me
  • English
  • Down

• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Words

• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Age
  • Will
  • Now

• I am an economist, not an astrologer.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Economist
  • Astrologer

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Good
  • Done
  • Character

• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Single
  • Learning
  • Miracle

• Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Up
  • True
  • Simple

• Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Practice

• I'm not Tom Cruise. I don't have to look that good. I'm always going to have a problem because I'm thought of as someone edgy, but I'm not. I'm a cupcake.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Edgy

• There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Good
  • Best
  • Evil