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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A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.
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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.
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I buy way too many books.
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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?
