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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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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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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A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.
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There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive, and there was sort of a wall of volume all the time.
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I had a corporate job and wore a suit to work every day, and I just kind of felt like I wasn't living my authentic self or doing what I was passionate about.
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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
