Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Quotes to Explore
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.
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I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
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I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.
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American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
