Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
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I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.
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There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
