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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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 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'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
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A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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'To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.'
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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.
