Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

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• I get depressed at airports.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Get
  • Depressed

• I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Children
  • Career

• There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Yourself
  • Look
  • Skin

• I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Club

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • High
  • Fly
  • Feet

• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Small
  • Leadership
  • Bold

• Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Internet

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Love
  • Person
  • Religion

• We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Want
  • Wall

• When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Love
  • Lucky
  • Love Is

• I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Writing
  • You
  • Yourself

• A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Preparation

• Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Long
  • Children
  • Heart

• A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • History

• I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Crazy
  • Did
  • Romeo And Juliet

• I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Actor
  • Middle School

• Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Anything

• If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • World
  • Men
  • Achieve

• To me, the meaning of life is to be happy, it's to achieve happiness right now. It's to make sure your happy in the future and that generally when you look back on your life you're like; yes, that was satisfactory. And if some people on youtube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is; Do whatever you have to do to be happy.

  

  Dan Howell
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

  

  Melvil Dewey
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Achieve

• We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Achieve
  • Instinct
  • Parade