Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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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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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.
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Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
