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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Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.
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Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.
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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.
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Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.
