Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.
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Inflation is up, driven by energy prices. Underlying core rates remain low, which is encouraging.
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The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.
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Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
