Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Fear
• Courage
• Goal
• Blind

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

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• Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

  

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• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

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• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

  

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• People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'

  

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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

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• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

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• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

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• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

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• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

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• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

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• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  

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• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

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• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

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• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

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• I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

  

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• Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

  

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• Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.

  

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• A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

  

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• The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

  

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• My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

  

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• We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Goal