Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

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There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.
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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
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This journey from non-dancer to dancer has given me a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. I feel like a different person.
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We are trying to persuade people that no human has yet grasped 1% of what can be known about spiritual realities. So we are encouraging people to start using the same methods of science that have been so productive in other areas, in order to discover spiritual realities.
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Success comes in cans, not can'ts.
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We can thrive and bloom if we are rooted in our love of the Savior.
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The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.
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Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
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They (Kawasaki) had to buy it special. We didn't have one here, so they got it from our Maui store.
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Advanced ticket sales have been terrific but we've also found that on the day of the show twice as many people are just walking up (to buy tickets). Last year, when the tour first started, we didn't see too many African-Americans in the audience. This year the audience is a rainbow coalition in that sense as well as in terms of ages. The audience ages are all over the map. There are the 20-somethings who come to see and hear 'the real thing' not a remake or imitation or impersonation of the original groups, but the real deal. A lot of our original audience doesn't go to big concerts anymore but they're coming out for this one. It's one last party.
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What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?