Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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Somehow, the process of making movies conventionally can dampen creativity because you've got to wait in line to do everything the way it's supposed to be, particularly with actors who are just hanging out waiting for the call.
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I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
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There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds.
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My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me 'Trash Queen'.
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When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
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I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.
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I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.
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We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency.
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One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
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I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.
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There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
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He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
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When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.
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God thus excludes the world; he is only its cause; in no sense is he effect, of himself or anything else. Pantheism (better, "pandeism," for again it is not really the theos that is described) means that God is the integral totality of ordinary cause-effects, and that there, is no super-cause independent of ordinary causes and effects.
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Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.
