Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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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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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I love to smile.
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Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
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I don't think I consciously made a decision to be the 'gay singer' of Korea. I wasn't trying to make a scandal or create buzz; it literally just happened in the most organic and natural way.
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'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.
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Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
