Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
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Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
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John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
