Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
