Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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• Of course I get hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hurt
  • Get
  • Course

• Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Long
  • Best
  • Acting

• When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Everything
  • Normal

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I think it's important that things are flawed.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Think
  • Things

• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • History
  • Me
  • Big

• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • May
  • History
  • Culture

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • High
  • Fly
  • Feet

• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Me

• When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

  

  Banks
  • Thinking
  • Feel
  • Better

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Art
  • Action
  • Watch

• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Real
  • Study

• A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Earth

• It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Live
  • Power
  • Rock

• While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

  

  Joseph Barbera
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Religious

• Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Achieve