Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

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• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

  Natasha Calis
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• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

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• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

  

  Karel Capek
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• I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Trust
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• If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
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• You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
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• My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

  

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• I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
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• Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
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• If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

  

  Bruce Schneier
  • Technology

• If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

  

  John Travolta
  • Play
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• My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

  

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• There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

  

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• Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.

  

  Amy Poehler
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• Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

  

  Saul Bellow
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• Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create a financial legacy.

  

  Ray J
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• I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

  

  Ariel Pink
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• A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Work
  • Man
  • Conscience

• The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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• Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Conscience
  • Deserve
  • Weapon