Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
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Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.
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There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.
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I, for one, have no interest at all in having my heart stolen.
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
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Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.
