Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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No one person is an island.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
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The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.
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I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.
