Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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Acting is in your soul.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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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.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.
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I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
